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   Wilson to All   
   Re: on freaking boomernomics   
   02 Feb 26 16:41:37   
   
   XPost: alt.messianic   
   From: Wilson@nowhere.invalid   
      
   On 2/2/2026 2:14 PM, dart200 wrote:   
   > On 2/2/26 10:26 AM, 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   
   >   
   > u built a house on a parcel of land and now everyone in the entire world   
   > is just supposed to respect that because???   
   >   
   > you used resources that no one produced (land, raw material) and   
   > is therefore yours by right of violence indefinitely into the future???   
   >   
   > what is reality just a giant game of finders keepers???   
   >   
   >> required to pay or they take my house away. Or the income tax which if   
   >> if not paid they take my liberty away.   
   >   
   > u have no problem with landlords, why in the fuck do u have a problem   
   > with landlords submissive to democratic input???   
   >   
   > it's always such a weird contradiction libertarians display: no problem   
   > with "private" landlords, but all the problems with "public" landlords...   
   >   
   >>   
   >> All evidence points to coercive collectivists being genuine idiots.   
   >>   
   >   
   > i'm arguing with submature children tbh, freaking boomernomics   
   >   
   >    > could we get a little general decency up in this bitch???   
   >    >   
   >    > #god   
   >   
      
   Property rights are a real thing. Dispense with them and then as history   
   repeatedly shows you get dystopia and ultimately societal collapse.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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