From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 13:26:04 -0500, Wilson    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   You mean the evidence you are willing to consider.   
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