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@RockChartrand
Freedom. Reason. Pride. Anti tribal. Anti authoritarian. Pro individual.
Canada Katılım Kasım 2018
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The burden of proof is on those claiming causation. It is easy to explain how investment, entrepreneurship, and capital accumulation can improve living standards. It is much harder to explain how someone owning shares in a company causes another person to starve.
Sachi@Sachiposting
Billionaires shouldn’t exist because they hoard wealth while people die on the streets and starve
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@Sachiposting The burden of proof is on those claiming causation. It is easy to explain how investment, entrepreneurship, and capital accumulation can improve living standards. It is much harder to explain how someone owning shares in a company causes another person to starve.
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Billionaires shouldn’t exist because they hoard wealth while people die on the streets and starve
Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus)@_Credible_Hulk
Defeat progressive inequality obsession with this one question
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The socialist calls capitalism feudal because both contain wealthy people. By that standard, birds and airplanes are the same because both occupy the sky. Feudalism was distinguished not by wealth, but by political privilege and inherited status—precisely the sort of arrangement that emerges whenever the state acquires sufficient power to dispense favors.
MC Squared@mcsquared34
Capitalism isn’t much different from feudalism. We still have landlords, kings and nobles are now called corporate executives and peasants have been repurposed as wage slaves.
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The socialist calls capitalism feudal because both contain wealthy people. By that standard, birds and airplanes are the same because both occupy the sky. Feudalism was distinguished not by wealth, but by political privilege and inherited status—precisely the sort of arrangement that emerges whenever the state acquires sufficient power to dispense favors.
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Capitalism isn’t much different from feudalism. We still have landlords, kings and nobles are now called corporate executives and peasants have been repurposed as wage slaves.
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There is something wonderfully honest about the sentiment. The billionaire is criticized not for possessing wealth, but for possessing it while others possess superior voting power.
"They have the money. We have the people" unintentionally reveals the philosophy: wealth is not to be earned or competed with, but politically outnumbered.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Billionaires get richer while working families struggle. The U.S. is in decline. How do we turn that around and create an economy that works for ALL? We knock on doors and build our grassroots movement. They have the money. We have the people. ORGANIZE. ORGANIZE. ORGANIZE.
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There is something wonderfully honest about the sentiment. The billionaire is criticized not for possessing wealth, but for possessing it while others possess superior voting power.
"They have the money. We have the people" unintentionally reveals the philosophy: wealth is not to be earned or competed with, but politically outnumbered.
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Billionaires get richer while working families struggle.
The U.S. is in decline.
How do we turn that around and create an economy that works for ALL? We knock on doors and build our grassroots movement.
They have the money. We have the people.
ORGANIZE. ORGANIZE. ORGANIZE.
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@RockChartrand No, he just recognizes that your fantasies are childish nonsense.
Capitalism in the real world is Epstein. That’s what it is.
And if you want capitalism, you want Epstein. Sometimes you’re just not smart enough to know that.
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We actually say that your desperation to hold Epstein’s pocket is pathetic.
Sal the Agorist@SallyMayweather
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The modern activist has a curious moral compass. He discovers Epstein lurking behind every advocate of markets, yet somehow cannot locate regimes that have openly presided over child marriages, despite their being considerably easier to find.
Noah Khrachvik@khrachvik
We actually say that your desperation to hold Epstein’s pocket is pathetic.
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It's funny how "it's my tax dollars paying for it" quickly turns into "tax the rich more." If it were really about your money funding your priorities, you'd probably support keeping more of your own earnings and spending them voluntarily rather than handing them to politicians and hoping they choose correctly.
James Tate@JamesTate121
What the F*ck is so hard to understand?
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It's funny how "it's my tax dollars paying for it" quickly turns into "tax the rich more." If it were really about your money funding your priorities, you'd probably support keeping more of your own earnings and spending them voluntarily rather than handing them to politicians and hoping they choose correctly.
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The frustration many socialists have with capitalism is not that it prevents sharing, but that it requires consent. Trade, contracts, and property rights mean other people are allowed to say "no."
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The irony is that many workers think like capitalists: work, save, invest, and build. The socialist ideal too often shifts from creating wealth to politically claiming a larger share of what others have created.
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@JoshMosh138 The irony is that many workers think like capitalists: work, save, invest, and build. The socialist ideal too often shifts from creating wealth to politically claiming a larger share of what others have created.
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A system where wealth buys political privilege is immoral. But a system where political power determines who receives wealth and privilege is not morally superior. It is merely a different route to the same injustice.
Socialists assume that if government gains the power to pick winners and losers, it will permanently favor the poor. It won't. The same machinery can be captured by anyone. A government powerful enough to help your friends is powerful enough to help your enemies. That is why both plutocracy and socialism ultimately suffer from the same flaw: political privilege replacing equal rights.
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We are told that rich men are dangerous because they seek influence over government. The proposed remedy is then to make government vastly more influential and hope the rich suddenly lose interest.
If wealth inequality leads to corruption because government can grant privileges, perhaps the problem is the privileges rather than the inequality itself.
The lesson would seem to be to make government less capable of rigging the game, not to hand it even more authority over everyone's lives.
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Imperialism has become a wonderfully versatile villain. It made America rich enough to exploit the world and poor enough to be exploited by it at the same time. Such theories possess the admirable quality of being able to explain any outcome and therefore needing explain none of them.
chimera@chimeraxmachina
Imperialism. The reason you are struggling is imperialism. The reason the climate is collapsing is imperialism. The reason we get war after war is imperialism. I cannot take your political opinions seriously if ending imperialism isn't your number one priority.
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Imperialism has become a wonderfully versatile villain. It made America rich enough to exploit the world and poor enough to be exploited by it at the same time. Such theories possess the admirable quality of being able to explain any outcome and therefore needing explain none of them.
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Imperialism. The reason you are struggling is imperialism. The reason the climate is collapsing is imperialism. The reason we get war after war is imperialism. I cannot take your political opinions seriously if ending imperialism isn't your number one priority.
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Marx observed that surplus wealth creates people who live upon the efforts of others. It is one of history's little jokes that his intellectual descendants looked upon this warning and mistook it for an instruction manual.
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