Yep, this is what I wrote:
It's the most affluent in history in that for the first time the planet produces a surplus of resources, we have enough food that there shouldn't be any poverty, we have enough food to feed everyone and have some left over. The problem is, as you say, the top 1% has it all. But even then in the last 25 years extreme poverty has fallen from 50% to 10%.
Pretty clear if you ask me. People seem to go into these conversations with an agenda and with a view to get upset and therefore ignore anything which will sate their umbrage.
It's a football forum, if people are getting wound up over Off Topic Stuff then I suggest just stick to the football because its not worth getting your umbrage sated by comments from people hiding behind avatars on forums.
Out of interest, Ryan, have you ever sat down and had a face to face conversation or hung out with a "racist" or "nationalist" right winger?
I have met and hung out with people from all ends of the political spectrum and was surprised at how similar their respective mindsets were even though politically they were polls apart.
From my experience individual people are all pretty much the same when it comes down to it but a different dynamic arises when people get into group think and mob mentality. Most unattractive.