# Conservative Dopers convince me with your best-case plans

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**Created:** [December 14, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-dopers-convince-me-with-your-best-case-plans/606157 "2011-12-14T13:14:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-dopers-convince-me-with-your-best-case-plans/606157/107 "2011-12-18T14:23:32Z")

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> [@Stratocaster](#):
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> From [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633379&highlight=productivity):
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> > [@Robot Arm](#):
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> > For the last few decades, the 99% have been working harder, putting in more hours, educating themselves more, and being more productive than in years past, and yet seeing no real increase in their standard of living. That was always the bargain, wasn’t it; everybody works their asses off to make the pie bigger and everybody gets a bigger piece? Carolla thinks they’re acting entitled to something they didn’t earn. I think they’re tired of working to earn something and not getting it.
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> So, sorry, but you seem to be the poster child for this mistaken position that misunderstands what increased productivity means as an economic term.

Just for completeness sake, let me quote my entire post:

> [@Adam Carolla's Take on Occupy Wall Street](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-carollas-take-on-occupy-wall-street/604784/49):
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> If Carolla thinks that a few extra trophies in Little League has shaped the views of a generation, **let me offer the following hypothesis**. For the last few decades, the 99% have been working harder, putting in more hours, educating themselves more, and being more productive than in years past, and yet seeing no real increase in their standard of living. That was always the bargain, wasn’t it; everybody works their asses off to make the pie bigger and everybody gets a bigger piece? Carolla thinks they’re acting entitled to something they didn’t earn. I think they’re tired of working to earn something and not getting it.

(bolding mine)

Are we going to debate the meaning of “hypothesis” now?

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