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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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