The extravagant lives of the 'Rich Kids of Tehran' are fueling Iran's protests — take a look

[Bonk]

This is true.
A thought experiment.
If I walk up to you and your homey and offer you a bag of money.
Of course you accept it as long as there are no catches.but what if there is one small catch

You count the money and then your homey decides on the split.
If you don't like the split you can refuse it all and neither of you get the money

What would y'all offer or slash accept.
This is the danger of income inequality

But that's what capitalism is all about.

If you don't want that - embrace socialism. End of.

 

[pimpineasy]

But that's what capitalism is all about.

If you don't want that - embrace socialism. End of.

Not exactly. Thats what pure capitalism is.
America is not a pure capitalistic society. There is acknowledgement of free market failures and attempts to correct them. Thats why we have environmental laws, minimum wage and social welfare.
These are things meant to cushion the pptenital social unrest caused by wealth inequality.

 

[SupremexKing]

This is true.
A thought experiment.
If I walk up to you and your homey and offer you a bag of money.
Of course you accept it as long as there are no catches.but what if there is one small catch

You count the money and then your homey decides on the split.
If you don't like the split you can refuse it all and neither of you get the money

What would y'all offer or slash accept.
This is the danger of income inequality

not only income equality, but generational wealth (which largely determines your place in society).

 

[SupremexKing]

We all in fukked up countries but dude, you cannot even try compare nations run on religious text to those where people are free thinkers. The human being was designed to have free thought and expression.
Being in a poorly run country is not the same as being in an country where every aspect of your life is pre determined for you based on outdated relgious doctrine.

this is all a subjective matter of opinion.

iran may have income disparity, but last time i checked they didnt treat the people they enslaved to build the foundations of their country like shyt and normalize murdering them and wealth thievery from that same group.

 

[SupremexKing]

But that's what capitalism is all about.

If you don't want that - embrace socialism. End of.

do you know what capitalism or socialism are? lmao

 

[AlainLocke]

Bring out the gulags...and you know what to do to the rich...

I thought people said there's no freedom in Iran and the women wear hijab?

Where are all these women in bikini smoking shisha from?

Someone is lying.

Iranians don't have Muslim fundamentalism by choice and really don't embrace it...

 

[Dushane Hill]

http://www.businessinsider.com/iran...ave-no-problem-flaunting-their-money-around-1

This nicca in the yellow shorts standing there with no bytch

 

[Strapped]

Maybe they want iran to become a dump like the middle east

 

[Trajan]

This nicca in the yellow shorts standing there with no bytch

 

[Milomann]

 

[richaveli83]

Time for America to liberate them from the Mullahs.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Iran actually has a chance at change and reform, I hope I get to see it in my lifetime.

 

[Soundbwoy]

They need it to take take it to the streets and do it the French way

 

[get these nets]

OP, that article is propaganda.

Same people behind these Iranian protests are the same ones behind the "arab spring". Goes by three letters...starts with a C and ends in an I.A..


samas it ever was
same as it ever was
same as it ever was

New York Times Special Report: The C.I.A. in Iran

By JAMES RISEN




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he Central Intelligence Agency's secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran's government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans.
Written in 1954 by one of the coup's chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran's elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist.

The document shows that:

• Britain, fearful of Iran's plans to nationalize its oil industry, came up with the idea for the coup in 1952 and pressed the United States to mount a joint operation to remove the prime minister.
  

• The C.I.A. and S.I.S., the British intelligence service, handpicked Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and covertly funneled $5 million to General Zahedi's regime two days after the coup prevailed.
  

• Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.
  

• The shah's cowardice nearly killed the C.I.A. operation. Fearful of risking his throne, the Shah repeatedly refused to sign C.I.A.-written royal decrees to change the government. The agency arranged for the shah's twin sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlevi, and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the father of the Desert Storm commander, to act as intermediaries to try to keep him from wilting under pressure. He still fled the country just before the coup succeeded.
  

 

[pimpineasy]

not only income equality, but generational wealth (which largely determines your place in society).

absolutely!
generational wealth is a huge driver of ones success.
the pilllge and rape of africas resources was a huge boon to europe the effects of what is still seen now.