From: Wilson@nowhere.invalid   
      
   On 2/1/2026 7:35 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   
   >   
   >> 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   
      
      
   I'm not forced to buy anything. Compare that to the property tax I'm   
   required to pay or they take my house away. Or the income tax which if   
   if not paid they take my liberty away.   
      
   All evidence points to coercive collectivists being genuine idiots.   
      
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