All I know about this “unbelievably sweets alpacas” thing is it’s some kind of movie made about economic inequality done in a style resembling MLP, sounds like it could either be a genuine attempt to explain this stuff to kids, or it could be propaganda, I don’t know.
 
@ImperatorZor  
Its not that simple, there are people out there who genuinely do take advantage of welfare by living off of it instead of just using it as a crutch until they get a job like others do(that’s what welfare is for), basically freeloading parasites. People like that are kind of like holes in the economy where money goes in but nothing useful comes out. This could be solved with a time limit, such as making it so a person can only have welfare for a year or two. That seems like enough time to get a job, and that way any parasites who want to live off of welfare have to either get a job or not have any income.

@Background Pony #0EEB  
There’s no reason to believe anyone would starve on the streets without welfare. Even moderately free economies don’t have famines.

@Background Pony #0EEB  
Looking at your posts on this and other images, we honestly can’t even tell who you are trying to bait any more. It’s like you have too many lines in the water or something.
 

 
If folks really want to talk politics, especially on images that have not had a single comment on them for two years or more, please remember that we have a great new forum for that.

@Background Pony #66AC  
“not to mention things like welfare are easy for people to abuse, and such.”  
As opposed to having people starve to death on the streets, or turning to crime to avoid starving to death on the streets?

@Masem  

 
I had no idea that Spurlock had anything to do with “A Brony Tale”. Why is he interested in Bronies/MLP?

The CEO’s name translates to “Lucky Alpaca III.”
 
It does kind of bring up one of the things this cartoon misses/oversimplifies. While “the 1%” do tend to get a disproportionate piece of the pie at any given snapshot in time, who makes up “the 1%” getting the disproportionate share varies with time. The lower middle class through the middle upper class tends to churn at a rate of about 50%/generation. In other words, half of children born in the lower middle class will wind up higher than their birth status as adults, while half of children born into the lower upper class will wind up lower than that as adults. (The rate of churn is much less with the 0.1%, though. Those born filthy rich tend to stay that way.) On the other hoof, it’s pretty accurate that being in the bottom few percent doesn’t tend to change with time. If you’re born poor, you’ll probably stay poor. As will your descendants, with very few exceptions. Indeed, most of the “America has very low social mobility” stuff is statistically due to the fact that the poor tend, with fantastic predictability, to stay poor. The middle to upper classes have above average social mobility (again, not counting the obscenely rich, who rarely fall.)

@Vree  
It’s kinda like those shorts MAD TV does, except they’re good.

@Vree  
In regards to the whole “redistributing the wealth” ideal, how come the politicians & Hollywood rich types aren’t the ones redistributing their own wealth, or getting cuts in their huuuuge paychecks if they think it will help the economy so much?
 
Also, just throwing money at problems doesn’t automatically fix them, not to mention things like welfare are easy for people to abuse, and such. The problem with the economy isn’t just “evil rich people,” there are also “poor” people who have nicer cars, and TVs then the middle-class now, (they brag about leeching off welfare where a friend of mine used to work, and getting fancy crap like that) and refuse to work, and leech off the taxpayers thanks to that.
 
I really think they should put limits on welfare, and such to keep people from abusing it. It’s meant to help people get back on their feet, not support them for the rest of their lives.

@AaronMk  
Also, I noticed that Morgan Spurlock is behind (at least) this one, he was the guy doing the Brony Tale film, so could see that easily pulling that for this.

@Vree  

 
You might be interested in this.
 
It’s part of the larger “series” (I guess you could call it that) of videos some Hollywood names put together to educate people about the economy, national and international. They got some twenty videos covering everything from income inequality, banking, international supply chains, and all of that.
 
It’s really very beautiful.

I kinda wish bronies would get behind this seriesand support it into becoming an ongoing seriesof shorts.
 
Not because I want to push anybody’s political message (indeed, instead of financial equality in America I should be pushing for intenrational equality, something US taxpayers would likely not have an interest in), but because I think it informs about important subjects in an amusing way.
 
I’d love to see the three friends tackle all kinds of economical issues that influence people today.