From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/1/2026 4:35 PM, dart200 wrote:   
   > On 2/1/26 9:03 AM, Wilson wrote:   
   >> On 1/31/2026 4:44 PM, Dude wrote:   
   >>> On 1/31/2026 10:30 AM, dart200 wrote:   
   >>>> because billionaires don't have morals, and are slave to chasing   
   >>>> what they perceive as profit regardless of the effect of others   
   >>>>   
   >>>> there's a reason rich people can't make it into heaven   
   >>>>   
   >>>> cause we can't even build heaven when rich people exist   
   >>>>   
   >>> Because it's obvious that you are biased by even using the term "rich".   
   >>> There's a good reason people don't want to be equally poor.   
   >>   
   >> By global standards everyone here is rich.   
   >>   
   >> If there were somehow a sudden great leveling of worldwide wealth today   
   >   
   > easy to say when ur not poor   
   >   
   The term “Democratic Socialism” is a contradiction in words:   
      
   IF   
      
   the idea of democracy embodies the liberal ideals of self-direction,   
   enabling ordinary people to meaningfully choose the policies that will   
   rule them,   
      
   THEN   
      
   Self-expression, and democracy pose an insurmountable problem for socialism.   
      
   ELSE   
      
   The State.   
    >   
      
   >> it would almost certainly result in the end of our civilization. Any   
   >> actual progress towards the improvement of living standards has always   
   >> come from innovation, which requires a degree of concentration of   
   >   
   > which modern govts did best in the 20th century...   
   >   
   > govts fund the riskiest innovation that private investors can't   
   >   
   >> wealth. Long-term overall improvement has never resulted from forced   
   >> redistribution.   
   >>   
   >> That doesn't mean we shouldn't help other people who need it. It does   
   >> however seem pretty obvious to me that assistance should never be from   
   >> any sort of centralized coercion.   
   >>   
   >> Forced redistribution is regressive and not progressive.   
   >   
   > capitalism is already predicated on forced distribution   
   >   
      
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