highest taxable income per household. if you have a demographic of people who tend to live with their extended family their entire life. then they will always come out on top. once again people got tricked by comparing people of different cultures with a single stat. this is how the powerful trick people.
why not both? income and race. suddenly poor white men will become a protected class. for the uninitiated, this should make you realized that affirmative action only helps the wealthy members of each demographic. we also should add a citizenship criteria.
i do think a better way of measuring wealth is needed. maybe the amount of money you are deducting from your taxes. nobody who knows finance, aka the wealthy, has a large amount of taxable income.
they got rid of affirmative action in california. the asians were the only minorities to see growth in the number of acceptances to uc. however, it was no where near the rate of growth of their population demographic. most of the new spots went to foreign students. once again the faculty went back to being exclusively white male. also all state government jobs hiring practices were no longer scrutinized for discrimination. minority elected officials in california clearly have difficulties dealing with their own state government.
nobody bothered to check whether eliminating affirmative action actually helped.
I mean, the UC is a merit based educational institution - why should the ethnicity of the faculty matter? If they are the expert in their field and can teach, then who cares if they're white/black/asian/alien.
This is why so many white-centric right wing groups very much want affirmative action abolished, because it is a massive advantage to the politically powerful and connected, who are mostly white in America.
Lets just say its hardly like they are out for justice for all races...
mortgages going bad was just the spark that ignited the forest fire that was the collapse. qe was used to buy time for companies to liquidate their risky assets. but in the end lehman brothers took the fall and we all became poorer.
huge debt is once again a symptom to the main problem of people unwilling to let the market decide the winners and losers.
so obviously a scam to destroy public schools and handicap the working class children. if you want to fix this just force the wealthy kids to attend public schools. the reason why the wealthy actively are destroying public institutions is because they are not using it.
> “It would be a mistake for transit agencies and cities to rely on this kind of last-mile connection to the exclusion of making better walking and biking connections to transit hubs,” he said. “Those are also very low-cost ways to make it easier to connect to transit.”
so a lot of people are taking the minibus because there are no way to safely physically get to an actual bus stop. if towns were planned around public transportation this would not be a problem. we have planned towns around automobiles for too long. this creates an artificial need for cars.
this is related to the fallacy of the top 1%. the fact of the matter is only celebrities or people who had a financial windfall makes up most of the so-called 1%. the reality is that the wealthy do not populate the top 1%. they are more likely to be found at the bottom 25% of earners as they are doing all they can to lower their tax burdens which primarily centers around eliminating their taxable income.
a better label for your stats is that it takes 20 years for a family to figure out how to hide their wealth.
lawl, so another public resource being demonized? this like those posts regarding the trouble of public transportation. only the stupidest people will buy into these kind of social media brainwashing. anything the wealthy do not use will be demonized.
the electoral college system has become a scam to give the presidential election to the wealthy. they can, during the election year establish residency in the swing states and in affect have more of a say as to who becomes president. people here claiming that it gives the rural population more of a say, that's a lot of bs. with national popular vote the urban and rural states will have just as much of a say as each vote will count for one vote. none of this crap of increasing the representative count and taking advantage of the numbers being rounded in favor of one party vs the other.
now if a party wants to rig the election, they will have a much harder time.
probably due to all the insecticide used in agriculture killing off the natural predators of mosquitoes. but i am sure the wealthy are rubbing their hands in thinking of the number of their companies that can profit from this.
