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   Message 154,597 of 155,846   
   dart200 to Wilson   
   Re: on freaking boomernomics   
   02 Feb 26 23:41:50   
   
   XPost: alt.messianic   
   From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 2/2/26 1:41 PM, Wilson wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   getting rid of property rights doesn't mean giving those rights to govts   
   or warlords... that would still be property rights u moron   
      
   did u know greenland doesn't have land property rights??? wow what a   
   dystopia they got going eh???   
      
   🫩🫩🫩   
      
   u should watch this david graeber lecture:   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs   
      
   it's technically on debt, but is heavily intertwined in a deeper   
   discussion of notions on what ownership means   
      
   i like to rewatch it every few years   
      
   --   
   hi, i'm nick! let's end war 🙃   
      
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