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|    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 🙃              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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