From the flood of the negative news on radio and other media, if I put my emotion aside, we are probably living in an interesting time. It makes me re-think about many things; mostly, nature of the human and their societies. Xenophobia is relatively easy to understand from a biological view, since many people have instinct for familiarity, and that kind of fear may have helped them to survive the early stage of evolution. But with the accumulated knowledge, I do not see the need to regress that far. I never felt that history, sociology, economy, and politics to be interesting before 2016. Things I have a hard time understanding is why the societal class lower than the super rich support the ideas against the redistribution of wealth. The income tax is one of the methods and I would think that it is one of the mechanism to balance against the capitalism's tendency that money collects more money. Well, I learned this kind of basic stuff in the junior high school, but by look
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