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		puredemo on Jan 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Income inequality is not the problem, it's a sympt... [flagged]

_dp9d on Jan 3, 2016 [–]

I was being serious.

Have a look at how things are done in Scandinavian countries, Australia, New Zealand.

We have very few obscenely rich people in Australia, and we have no desperate people.

chei0aiV on Jan 3, 2016 | | [–]

> Australia, and we have no desperate people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Australia

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gnaritas on Jan 3, 2016 | | [–]

No, not communism; social democracy and capitalism. You can't just call everything communism because you don't like it.

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