Writing Hong Kong Self-made Billionaires is a fascinating and humbling experience. I grew up in Hong Kong and I thought I knew it all, until I started gathering all the data
Hong Kong has 100,000 Cage People, these are not homeless, but they live in Chicken Cages, and obviously created quite a stir when viewed by Westerners -- how can people live like that?
But here in US, we have same or similar problems. Many foreigners tourists came to see the Homeless in America in LA and NY, where in 1 district, you can find thousands of them, quite a scene for the world's richest country.
here is the strange math:
100,000 cage people = let's say sheep
350,000 millionaires = let's say lions
according to Marxist doctrine, the rich exploit the poor, hence the lions will eat the sheep here.
but with 3.5 lions to each sheep, the lions will soon die of starvation.
the Marxist pyramid only works if there is 1 lion to every 50 sheep
1 sweat shop factory owner to 50 proletariats
you can have 3 factory owners to 1 workers.
-- Let's say LA --
My stats shows LA has 300,000 millionaires and 10,000 homeless
Aha, if we tax the rich in LA, then all the homeless will have swiming pools plus food.
Now, please do not laugh, because under Peron in Argentina, this was exactly what happened.
The govt printed money so the poor can have swimming pool. Similarly, in Nazis Germany, the government built swimming pool for the workers. I can only call this a Paradox, cause there is no easy answer to solve all our social ills and income inequality.
I heard people say "Occupy Wall Street", or "Occupy Central District" in HK,
but have yet to hear "Occupy Hollywood" or "Occupy Silicon Valley"
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