@lockjacket @jamesdoe1912 It needs to be balanced. Some environmental regulations are good but the extent to which places like the EU do it is completely overblown
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Wild how leftists refuse to acknowledge that stuff like environmental regulations makes the average person poorer.
I’m okay with regulations because I think some things, like protecting the environment, is more important but leftists just refuse to take accountability at all.
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@Linus200712345 Yeah inheritance taxes are one of the least economically bad taxes but I don't see how they meaningfully reduce the political power of the wealthy
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@TwinkRegimer As for insane wealth redistributions one way could be through very high inheritance taxes
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People generally don't live a full human life across the globe and even in the west not everyone does, the wealth distribution we have today also gives the rich an unequal amount of political power that should be reduced. More wealth redistribution will be necessary.
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the neoliberal mindset is more that we already live like royalty and don't appreciate it enough, and should appreciate and recognize the systems that make it possible
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@Linus200712345 With a UBI, maybe, I'm not sure. But the current welfare system has clearly created such a class.
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@TwinkRegimer "No, it just creates a class of welfare-dependents." People want to have a job and they want to be productive generally speaking, as long as you construct the welfare system in a smart manner this will not happen. There has not been evidence of that with a UBI for example
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@Linus200712345 No, it just creates a class of welfare-dependents. And it doesn't really reduce political power for the wealthy unless it's an insane amount of redistribution which is obviously bad for other reasons
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@TwinkRegimer Wealth redistribution is one of the ways to solve poverty and it is an important one although obviously just taxing billionares or something would not be enough. Additionally it is good for reducing political power among the wealthiest
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@Linus200712345 Wealth redistribution isn't a good way to solve poverty at all. And America seems pretty great to me, literally the richest non-microstate in the world
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@TwinkRegimer Poverty contribute to them and the rich having more political control is certainly an issue if we are to live in free and fair societies especially as the rich seek benefits for themselves, just look at America for how bad it can get
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if you didn't misremember at least half of these as being the version on the left, you are not ensouled. you are a cold, calculating automaton without the gift of life
The Media Mines@TheMediaMines
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@BlackLiberty10 @actsmaniac That has literally nothing to do with the original point
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@actsmaniac Yes royalty notably have to sell their Labour power for subsistence.
Liberals are braindead
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the neoliberal mindset is more that we already live like royalty and don't appreciate it enough, and should appreciate and recognize the systems that make it possible
Alejandro🌹🇪🇺@Alejandro_SocEU
The very top of the wealth distribution is really the only group that truly benefits from this system. That said, I actually like your argument because it aligns closely with the mindset of neoliberal voters, which I’ve often mentioned when talking about the working-class right-wing vote. People tend to believe that under capitalism, they too can become rich…
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i feel like i assumed everyone else in the world just kinda aged out of watching youtubers at around the same time i did but im starting to worry that may not be the case? are there still people out there who have like double digit youtube hours watched in 2026??
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@StefanFrancisci They are much more based than the most countries, but if they are really based enough we will see at the next anti migration referendum in summer.
That they will vote this down here was totally clear, Hayek enjoyer parties have one gazillion percent in Switzerland since eons.
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first "socialism is good in practice but horrible in theory"
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
Now Trump is admitting that China and its socialist system “shouldn’t work in theory” but it does work and “has to be respected.”
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haruko 🏙️🏗️🪐 retweetledi
@eleojo_0 @razorbilledmarx @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII The fact that you have to do something to have something is a fundamental law of reality, not a critique of capitalism.
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@TwinkRegimer @razorbilledmarx @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII In an ethically planned Economy no one should live with the weight of potential economic ruin on their shoulders and if you're a productive member of society, you should have more financial empowerment than mere consumerism.
Capitalism is limiting your potential to live.
Wake up!
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@eleojo_0 @razorbilledmarx @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII Yes, if I stop doing the thing that gives me money, I will no longer have money. Profound criticism man.
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@TwinkRegimer @razorbilledmarx @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII Bread and circus while being two paychecks or an accident away from economic ruin
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@razorbilledmarx @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII The typical thing modern people have due to capitalism: electronics, an apartment, all the food you'd ever want or need, all the clothing you'd ever want or need, entertainment, etc
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@razorbilledmarx @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII They go hand-in-hand with mine. The reason I'm materially wealthy is capitalism and markets.
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@TwinkRegimer @007_lunar @quanda_0 @automaticdoII Then why do you advocate for the richest people in the world's interests, when they directly go against yours?
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