Askme Forit

DAVE RUBIN: “Do you not want people to own private property?” WOMAN: “I’m definitely anti-capitalist...Workers should own the means of production.” RUBIN: “So you’re a communist?” WOMAN: “Yeah!” RUBIN: “I haven’t talked to a real-life communist.” WOMAN: “What’s a communist?” RUBIN: “Well, you want the people, you want the ‘people to own the means of production,’ and you don’t seem to believe in private property.” WOMAN: “The people who create value, as in create the value of commodities, should own the actual value that they create from that process.” RUBIN: “Do you work?” WOMAN: “Yeah.” RUBIN: “Do you pay taxes?” WOMAN: “Yeah.” RUBIN: “I want you to keep more of your money. Whatever you earn, I want you to have more of that money so you can put it back into the system.” WOMAN: “The majority of wealth in this system is owned by 1% of the population. You understand that, right?” RUBIN: “Do you know how much that 1% pays in taxes?” WOMAN: “Not nearly enough.” RUBIN: “It’s 47%. 1% of the population pays 47%. You accept that?” WOMAN: “Yeah.” RUBIN: “What would be their fair share?” WOMAN: “Majority of these lineages of power and ownership date back to—” RUBIN: “What would be their fair share?” WOMAN: “You’re not letting me finish.” RUBIN: “What would be their fair share?” WOMAN: “Their wealth is coming from the back ends of colonialism, so it’s not gonna work!”