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@allenlink8032 nO oNe Is FoRcEd To Do AnYtHiNg Yes, we are all literally forced to work, or we die, which isn't a choice.
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"Capitalism not the problem" I love how he said this after his wife just said in the 80's AT&T had to be broken up. If we need to keep breaking up companies because they get to big, than how is the conclusion that capitalism isn't bad? Its what lead to these monopolies that need to be broken up over and over and over again.
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We should ban both corporations from owning property, and people from owning more than 1. You dont need a second rental property.
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Should we ban it? No. Should we force employers to pay a thriving wage and the discourage tipping? Yes, but if someone wants to tip, thats their money to give to who they want.
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It started out that way, then for a short period from the 30's to 80's, we actually had good working class policies. Our country was literally founded by capitalists. That's why only land owning white men could vote.
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@TheModdedwarfare3 The majority of who? Puerto Ricans or the white settlers? Hawaii voted to be a state, and yet its not what the natives wanted. They moved enough white people there, and the white people voted to become a state.
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@tomblaise So only private property owners and governments can protect something? People cant organize to protect their community? Really?
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@notpublic8961 Humans were innovating long before money ever existed. Humans innovate, that's what we do. Humans dont need a profit motive to innovate. Never have. Never will. Just to desire to make life easier. But according to you, humans never innovated until humans innovated the idea of money, and then coinage.
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No, they should have independence.
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@Klokinator We should ban both private property and government.
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@RichardDuncan-ju1xk I cant solely answer that, but I'm a big fan of looking at indigenous cultures and learning how they handled governance and bringing that to the present. Giving land back to indigenous cultures would be the first step
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@nuance9000 We have to end the capitalist system.
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@landlordnation Lol, yeah its not really the property taxes making the rents raise as much as they are. Landlords large and small collude together to keep raising rents. This isn't a big secret and we need to stop blaming it all on taxes. Landlords are greedy leeches.
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@crusherven No, businesses adopt these models because of how many people will pay for the service without ever using it. A gym is a subscription service, a service that would not be profitable if there weren't swaths of people who sign up for a gym, use it a few times, then dont go back but keep paying for it for a long time.
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"Capitalism infuriates me" Fixed it for you
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That's what America was built on though. Its the most American thing you can do.
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This has literally nothing to do with unions. This has to do with you wanting something and them wanting something in return for it.
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@RealShaktimaan Wow, that's so cool. So what about non-profits?
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@yogawithjengentleyoga3614 Asking what could go wrong while we are seeing massive rent spikes and a rise in homelessness is ironic as fuck.
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True, one is a factory and the other is a restaurant, and they are both filled with dangers...
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@dominicfucinari1942 Yes, its capitalism
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WAYYYY too much credit. MPU can be such a letdown
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 @nunyabidness3075 Weird, when utilities are publicly owned they get cheaper utilities. Almost like the regulations aren't the problem
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Workers deserve to control the means of production. I support Unions crushing capitalism and giving power to us workers!!!
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@Atreus21 Sure, if you hate workers rights and think oligarchies should rule the world
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@Jimraynor45 vOluNtArIlY aGrEeD tO There are no voluntary agreements under a system that doesnt meet peoples needs first. Learn what the word voluntary means and then explain how when the options are to work or be homeless its voluntary to take a job.
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@Your_mom736 "I can see both sides. In the end, if we do want to move closer to solar and EV. This is the only logical direction." Or we could just recycle the massive amount of copper that gets thrown into landfills everyday... We also dont want to move towards EV's, we want to move away from cars
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 @gregorymalchuk272 Weird, the USSR was massively innovative. It's like you just believe capitalist propaganda without a second thought.
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@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy Please explain to me how this is similar to venezuela
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@DavidH50 Wow, lots of old people moving to Florida. You got us.
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@wakeupamerica2024 I dont see anyone playing victim, but I do see plenty of people who dont see the reality of our socioeconomic system and instead defend mass exploitation to make others rich.
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Then go be like her
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@BigTrees4ever So because modern capitalism isn't what Smith defined in "Wealth of Nations", that means this isn't capitalism? That just isn't true. What we are living under is capitalism, plain and simple. Smith was also a myth maker who ignored what was happening in what was his present day England and wrote about a utopia in Wealth of Nations. I find him to be a terrible philosopher to look at for inspiration. Our western economy really doesn't have elements of workers controlling the means of production at all. Calling what we have as corporate socialism is just butchering what the meaning of socialism is. Its capitalism. This is how capitalism has always worked. Capitalism is not free market economics. Free market economics existed long before capitalism did. In the Middle East surrounding the Indian Ocean, they had a free market system going that they took very seriously. The Indian Ocean was very peaceful for hundreds of years until the capitalists came in and started bombarding everything. What the middle east had was not capitalism, and they knew that centering the profit motive would lead to disaster. They could have become a capitalist empire, but never did. China has also been in the same position hundreds of years ago. You believe in a utopian capitalism created by enlightenment era philosophers who created myth to justify colonialism and imperialism, two major aspects of capitalism. You decide that because we don't live in the Utopia dreamed up by Smith, than we aren't living under capitalism. to sum up, markets aren't capitalism. Capitalism is a socio-economic system based especially on private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the labor force. That's what we have. I highly suggest you read Debt: "The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber and "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" and "The Prehistory of Private Property" by Grant S. McCall and Karl Widerquist Happy reading
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@andrewreynolds9371 No, our country was literally set up to benefit the capitalist class. The democratic and Republic party weren't started by concerned citizens, but by capitalist looking to take power. Just because working class people sometimes get wins, doesn't mean the parties are filled with concerned citizens playing politician
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 @gregorymalchuk272 No, for-profit companies did not give us the modern world.
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@sethj4237 No, states are not far more adept to deal with this matter considering people move across state lines all the time.
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If people can't criticize their leaders while they are actively being the leader, then how can we be a democracy?
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Gotta strengthen unions to make that happen
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@TheRealLesterGreen When your ability to make money comes from exploitation of others, your ability should be stopped at all costs.
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That's not how that works at all. They dont tax profits, they tax revenue. They tax donations. Do non-profits need to be fixed? Yes. Does fixing them include removing 30% of their funding to give to the government who will just turn around and give that money to corporations? No
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@sofamiller7133 So you think this neoliberal capitalism we live in is good? Because your statement really just tells me you have no idea what you are talking about. What are "economic facts" when all of economics is just completely made up. Cant have facts when you can change the rules
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@thinkharder9332 "If private schools are so terrible why are the considered better than public schools, and where most people with the means to send their children there do so?" They send their children there to keep everything in the club. That's the reason. ITs all about making sure your kids know who they need to know and to do everything they can to keep the plebeian's out. Rich people doing something doesn't make it better
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non-competes are very capitalistic. Capitalism has nothing to do with competition and it never has. The point of capitalism is to capitalize. The point is to make as much profit as possible.
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 @JamesTDG nope, just capitalism
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To be fair, that's how we also got the new deal. Also, to be fair, what's happening is nowhere close to the new deal.
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@prrplex5594 "To say monopolies are intrinsic to capitalism is to believe either capitalism shouldn't or can't be regulated and that is a very defeatist perspective" That's not what that means. Monopolies are intrinsic to capitalism because the goal for capitalists is to own more private property to generate more profits. Monopolies are the natural consequence of capitalism. Marx does a great job of laying out how that is true in "Capital". For it to be a defeatist perspective, the person saying it must believe capitalism is how we should organize our economic and social system. For the many people who want capitalism abolished, there is nothing defeatist about believing the monopolies are intrinsic to capitalism or that it cant be regulated. We have hundreds of years of capitalist history, all of it incredibly bloody, and more than enough examples of it being regulated and then those regulations latter on being repealed because the capitalists worked for decades to make it happen. Capitalism can not be regulated indefinitely. In the European countries you likely think of when you think of socialism being mixed with capitalism, they are slowly losing all the social safety nets due to the capitalists working to get rid of them so they can capitalize everything. We saw it happen here in USA too.
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 @llpolluxll We did watch the video. Negotiating only 10 drugs and only for people on Medicare and it jot being implemented until 2026 is NOT A WIN
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@TheModdedwarfare3 I know, but that would actually require completely dismantling our system. Reform will never be enough
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@dcg590 Those "successful" people are only successful because of other peoples labor. Cant be rich without someone else being poor.
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@siglandoe3913 I think it is you that is missing the point. The landlord is not the one paying for that mortgage. The tenet indirectly is. The landlord receives equity through someone else's labor. On top of the free equity and gains in that equity, landlords also require monthly profit in terms of rent. But yes, we should totally be sympathizing with the landlords over rent controls that keep people in their homes. Maybe don't own more property than you can live on? Maybe stop believing that you should be allowed to live off someone else's labor.
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@springerworks002 "Social security is a charity." You dont pay into charities. You pay into Social Security. Thus it is not a charity, but you getting your money back during retirement. Like, do you not understand how social security works? Do you know why social security exists in the first place?
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@jonathanjones3126 "most European countries are the size of some of our states" And most people travel within their state. What's your point? "trains don't scale as good as planes for long distance" Yes they do. See Chinas massive HSR network. Planes need massive infrastructure to use and remove a lot of land that could be developed in better ways. Trains require significantly less space. There are countless videos that show the countless different corridor's in USA for HSR when compared to corridors in other parts of the world. You dont know what you are talking about and are just repeating baseless talking points.
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@TheRealLesterGreen Private property is literally exploitation. Private property was created by government to reward those loyal to them and to spread their influence. It was used literally for the purpose of forcing indigenous people into servitude for these empires and private property owners. All land that is considered private property was originally taken by force to make it private property. Saying landlords arent exploiting people is completely contradictory to the reason for the creation of private property, and that's exploitation.
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He knows and doesnt give a shit.
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@DavidLindes Even if he sees it he still wont care. He isnt doing anything to break up any other monopolies and in many ways throughout his career has helped them do it. He is on their side.
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@MichaelMayo-tf5jz Yellow trucking company was shut down because of poor management. Unions dont manage the companies.
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@rygy729 Theres really not that much written. I write multiple paragraphs at a time. There's a lot of information to share.
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@wakeupamerica2024 I also didn't read it as if they think working is useless.
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@MasterDebater_Yoda How many of those jobs were well paying with fu? How many of these "new" jobs were just jobs returning from the pandemic? As for unemployment, when Biden took over, we were in a pandemic, and then millions were thrown off unemployment while still in a pandemic. How was that helpful? And how much is his economic plans actually helping those in poverty? You seem to be bragging about nothing. Most jobs "created" were just jobs coming back. And many of the new ones pay like absolute trash with no benefits. Throwing people off unemployment during a pandemic to make the capitalists happy also isn't a good thing. I'm not going to go though everything you said, but I do want to remind you that child poverty went right back up when we ended the tax credit. Good job repeating talking points without ever looking into the effects of them. And you should probably look into all the protections the EPA is dropping while under Biden. And oh boy, can't forget about the record number of oil drilling permits given out, almost as if it dwarfs the small amount being invested in green energy.
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@shawndevoid9813 What's been going on since ancient Rome. What's everywhere and in every type of governance? And if you believe greed is limitless, then would it also be safe to assume that all aspect of human nature are limitless? Like empathy and compassion? For real change to happen a revolution of some sorts must also happen, and we have been doing those for tens of thousands of years.
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@dragoonzen Yeah, you aren't a CEO and never will be, so not sure why your laughing.
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@avipharmd7646 Sounds like you will have to sell that extra property you don't even live on and whoever buys it can actually live there. You made the choice to become an investor. You don't always gain, however when you factor in the actual gains, even at 3% rent increase, those gains in property value more than make up for it, and its equity you aren't even paying for since the tenets are the ones giving you enough money to cover the mortgage and more, and when we go back far enough in sales of the property you own, we will always find that the property was originally stollen from others. The sense of entitlement you wannabe feudal lords is absolutey insane.
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@toycarpgmr Yeah, and something tells me that you understand that even though the costs now exceed rent (I highly doubt this) the gains you have been making in the value of the home more than make up for it, especially since the tenet is the one actually paying your mortgage and building your equity. Yall Feudal lords are funny
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@maxwellblackwell5045 "why don't we give it back to the people the Apache took it from?" If you are going to make this statement, you must be able to name who lived there before the Apache, right? SO, who was there before the Apaches? But good job on saying something incredibly stupid to distract people that the white Europeans committed the worst genocide in history to steal the natives land, a genocide that is still ongoing.
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@kmlckd You're right. Not the GOP OR the democrats. Weird to try and make this a one sided issue when both parties have been instrumental in the destruction of unionization.
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@Excalibur2 So if my money goes in, how is it also not my money coming right back to me? Make it make sense
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@erkinalp So you are capable of living in 3 homes simultaneously? Oh, you aren't capable of that since you only have a single body, then why do you need 3 homes?
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@erkinalp Again, why do you need 3 homes you can't live in at the same exact time. Wh do you believe yourself worth more homes than everyone else. Why do you believe you should hold onto vacant housing while others live on the streets?
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@DavidLindes There are other and more effective ways to act than hoping a president that's on the side of corporations will see a video and do something about it.
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@bmiles4131 Mass strikes and protests actually work pretty well. That and some rioting works. We never would have got the 8 hour work day, or ended child labor if we didnt burn down some factories. You can also engage in mutual aid which removes power from the capitalists. You can also vote with your dollar, which I know isnt actually possible for a lot of people, but for those who actually can, they should. Sending a video to a president who was known as the senator from mbna is really a waste of time. Joe Biden has done more than enough to help facilitate all these monopolies, he isnt about to start changing that.
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@SgtJoeSmith " im a commercial contractor, auto mechanic, computer tech, welder, marketing manager, graphic designer, ecommerce manager, painter, landscaper, handyman, and lot more." That's a lot of words to say you're a massive liar.
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@nunyabidness3075 I used publicly owned to cover anything that could mean publicly owned. I do agree that co-ops are better, but even municipal or state run utilities deliver cheaper prices.
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@carystevensky ZoMg TrUmP Always deflecting to someone worse is a terrible argument
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@carlitosortiz2870 Now go on and tell me the turnout rate for votes, along with the demographics. Hawaii voted to become a state, even though almost no native came out to vote, and it was just the settler colonialists who did. The natives didn't come out to vote because it was never the settler colonialists' land to begin with. The settler colonialists don't want PR to be independent.
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 @MilaLili1 Being the most legislative successful doesn't mean that legislation is actually helping people who need it.
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@That1J1 Social equality is not what the liberal ideology wants. Never has. Liberalism, and neoliberalism are all about private property rights and the protection of those private property rights.
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@Pseudify "Unions held me back. I was a hardworking, award winning employee who could have made more if I was allowed to negotiate my own salary and benefits" No, you would not have been able to negotiate higher wages on your own. You're more than welcome to believe that, but its not a belief that's reflective of reality.
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@deeptoot1453 "That goes completely against most economic theory." Capitalist economic theory is based on myths and lies. "Competition usually leads to better, cheaper rand more innovative solutions" Yet we have ended up with over-production and planned obsolescence. "a.k.a. state owned." There is more than private and state owned. How much economic theory have you studied exactly?
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Down with capitalism. There is no such thing as fettered capitalism. There is no such thing as crony capitalism. They are just capitalism. If you come here and say its corporatism, that's just capitalism with a different name. Whatever utopian capitalism, defined by Smith, you think is the real capitalism is not a system that can exist due to the profit motive. Capitalism, in all forms, is the problem. It must be abolished. Reform can never work.
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@HKim0072 You're not a centrist. You're to the right of the center, and pretty far right when you actually include what the left is.
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@jonathanjones3126 " it would cost billions just to buy land for one 1 track old style passenger train to a city" It would cost billions more to but the land for an airport. And then billions more in all the health problems caused by airports.
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@hg2. "What sane Californians think of tree huggers." Are you capable of saying anything intelligent?
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@eliot5220 When a couple years ago did we have no police or government? There's no evidence in a state of statelessness that people just go around killing each other. Modern anthropology has completely debunked that. Feel free to read "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" by Grant S. McCall and Karl Widerquist
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@crystlelakefarm1254 "So then you're suggesting that we should all live outside with no shelter when the weather gets bad?" I would love to hear how you came to this conclusion
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@lovevioletflowers3442 Why do you believe its ok to exploit other people. I dont care what reason you give for the exploitation. Why is it ok and why should we not be trying to change it?
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@dragonproductions236 For your first question, because it weakens the collective. You will never be able to negotiate more for yourself than you would if yall collectively negotiated. For the second question, they dont.don't. For the third question, unions have way fewer government protections than corporations. Why do you hate unions so much? Why do you believe you can negotiate better alone? Why do you hate the free market?
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@investmentanalyst779 When people claim someone else is misinformed without pointing out how that person is misinformed, it's very safe to assume the person calling another misinformed had literally no idea what they are talking about and are just trying to feel superior. So go ahead, explain how I'm misinformed here.
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@SgtJoeSmith Sounds like you have no idea how the world works. If they train non one to do the job, the job cant get done. And if you want to retain employees, you need to pay them better with better benefits instead of trapping them with a contract.
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No. They should be paid well from the employer, not the customers. Claiming that servers deserve to be in poverty because they don't give the service you want is barbaric as fuck
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@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr It has nothing to do with it being "unregulated". Capitalists work tirelessly to unregulated any regulation we put in place. Capitalism is the problem because it places profit above all else. Capitalists have caused more genocides than any other, all because it leads to greater profits. As for democracy, what USA has is a piss poor example of democracy.
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@allmorrisvideos "Did you write that on a phone?" Go on, explain how that relevant. Its not. We are all forced to participate in society.
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 @jamisonleckenby2355 Try again, duh
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Very weird to bring on an investment firm on this channel. Like this company profits off dollar general and they will never want working condition to be very good because that will hurt profits to much. Ir would be far bettter to remove the need for super cheap places instead of marginally improving worker conditions, and that assumes something happens after the audit which isnt guaranteed. No but seriously, gross to bring profiteers off exploitation and the very reason we need unions.
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@berg8970 How are you going to force corporations to give back to society in a system controlled by the corporations?
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@carystevensky You have way more options than just voting
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@Leto2ndAtreides "Separately, many of the homeless do have mental health issues. Which again, is a different kind of problem." The mental health issues they have arised due to them being unhoused
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@scottmolnar4132 Many landlords already don't do maintenance. Maybe don't own more property than you can live on at a single time?
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@AS-rx3yk Except places with rent control continue to see new developments. You can drop this scare tactic. Its simply not true.
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@nathair666We don't even have good, so go away with your nonsensical statement.
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@Detrumpificator4377 Go on, quote me in this thread of me harassing someone. In fact, quote a single form of harassment in this thread. There's lots of harrasment on YouTube. This specific thread has none.
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They are employees, not assosiates. Calling employees associates has always been propaganda. To be an assosiate you need to be a partner in the buissness.
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@Necrapocalypse "Yeah just give up you and your childrens' future, your health, reliable transport, and a stable shelter. Then it's easy!" That's what actual poor people have to do all the time.
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@SamLee-e3b Public utilities are generally handles at the state or town/city level of government. You're laugh emojis give you away for what you are. A deeply unserious person.
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@doncherf2610 "Nope, if you don't ban tipping, you still have the problems and the anxiety that comes with tipping." Weird, many European countries have seem to have figured this out. They didn't ban it, its just discouraged. And again, who are you to tell someone who they can give their money to?
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@Dave102693 How do you plan to effectively ban it? How are you going to stop me from handing cash to other people? Are you going to penalize me, or the tipped person? Are you putting cameras everywhere to watch everyone at all times to penalize them to tip? Or would it be a completely unenforceable ban?
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@SirTopHat_ How do you plan to enforce that ban? How are you going to stop people from giving their money to someone else? Will you have servers who accept gratuity fired? Are we gonna fine people who tip? What's your method of enforcement?
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@thesquishedelf1301 It wouldn't be gone. They just wouldn't be allowed to tax tips. Guess what? Most tipped workers already don't claim the majority of their tips. Tips are also technically gifts, which are taxable even though the act of giving a gift is a form of speech.
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@sei.tsukino Never said we had to accept it, and in another comment in this thread, I claim that the only solution would be to completely dismantle this system.
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People aren't going homeless because they bought a fancy car. They are going homeless because the cost of living is rising substantially faster than wages.
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@seriouslyshortofnormal925 "No, workers don't generate profits." Weird, if you take away the workers, profit can not be generated. Therefor, workers generate the profit. "Profits should go to the owners/shareholders." What you just said is that profits should go to the leeches. Owners and shareholders are just people who had easy access to capital. That's it. Having easy access to capital doesnt mean you should get to profit off other peoples labor. "and if they want a piece of the profits they can buy stock" Cant do that when the wages set by the owners/shareholders isn't even enough to afford the cost of living set by owners/shareholders. "No worker is entitled to more than is mutually agreed upon by both worker and employer." Its not mutually agreed upon. Every single worker makes the agreement under duress. Dont work and you go homeless and starve to death. I had a really hard time understanding what you were saying because the boot is so deep in your throat. you will never be rich.
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@Textgabby Better time to invest directly into your communities, but hey, care about yourself only. No one is going to give a shit about your gold or BTC when we are struggling to grow food due to global warming.
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@HKim0072 " but tangentially I do have mild concerns about trans people competing in women's sports. I'd like to find a middle ground." There is no middle ground. Either trans women are women or they are not. There is nothing in the middle of that. If they are women, and they are, then they should be able to compete with other women. Any restriction means they aren't considered women. Trans women hardly ever win in the sports they compete in. Yet when they do, many people, yourself included, likely assume there was an unfair advantage, meaning, trans women will never be allowed to win if they want to be allowed to compete. What's the point in competing if you have to throw the game to allow a cis-woman to win? You see, there is no middle ground here, and you wanting to find one adds to the pressure to stop trans women from competing now, which means you are siding with the right. This means you are on the right. I am 100% certain that you dont have a single opinion that would fall on the left.
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iN tHeOrY iT souNdS nIcE
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No, they are likely treating people the same. Only difference between a billionaire CEO and a small buisness owner is the size of the buisness
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@Natty183 Rand didn't predict shit. Her entire "philosophy" is based off a massive amount of myths and ignorance on how humanity has survived for millennia, which was through mass cooperation and sharing of resources and not selfishness.
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No, its because they dont have enough money to afford the massive rise in the cost of living. We get it, you're comfortable and completely out of touch with reality.
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@machone539 Pease explain to me what I said is just blah blah blah and nothing important, and then explain how you are literally doing exactly that right now?
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@Justsomebodyelse235 If housing wasn't treated as an investment, basically everyone would be able to afford one, and you would have no reason to own more than one. And considering that any house you do buy is built on land that was violently stolen from others who had complex forms of communal ownership of the land, that really calls into question whether you actually own it. And we have to question if it really is your money. No working class person can afford to buy 4 houses. The only people who can do that are in the ownership class, which means that the money you claim that is yours would really be money you legally stole from workers.
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@Denver_____ "I’m sure Cubans would disagree with gov own property" Would love to see the evidence for this
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@Bethany_mo I expect landlords to stop existing
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@blairmonroe8887 It's pretty pathetic to call someone a child because they see massive problems with how things work in our modern day. Can you not do that since all it does is show you aren't willing to have a good faith conversation? For the majority of humanities existence everything was free. All land was owned under complex forms of communal ownership. We live in an anomalous time right now. There is nothing natural about private property and it wasn't created until antiquity. At best private property has existed for 2.5% of the time homosapiens have existed and it was only happening in a few places until the violent privatization of the world happened. So, care to try again, or are you just going to ignorantly call me a child again for disagreeing with how the violent capitalist system works, one that has only existed for at most 600 years.
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@blairmonroe8887 Again, humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. Landlords have only existed for a few thousand years at most. I'm not sure how saying landlords shouldn't exist is bad faith. It's what I believe. I believe no human should be allowed to exploit another human for their own gain. Please tell me how this is bad faith. Kings certainly controlled everything, and funnily enough it was originally monarchs that created private property to reward those that were loyal to them, or did a service for they did, like go to war for them. As for Chiefdoms, many times the chief was the poorest person in society because they were expected to give everything away. In the archeological record there is no evidence for war before about 10,000BC, so no warlords didn't always exist. In modern times there are still stateless peoples and autonomous villages. These don't have Kings or cheifs or warlords. If people exist in statelessness today don't have rulers, nor the stateless or autonomous villages that have existed over the past 600 years that we have been studying through anthropology and ethnography, it's pretty safe to assume stateless peoples in the past also lived without rulers. Claiming there must always be rulers completely goes against what modern anthropology teaches us. Claiming they always had leaders or were in a state of war is simply repeating racist myths started by enlightenment Era philosophers who were trying to justify the violent privatization of the world. I'll recommend you 3 good books. "The dawn of everything" by David Graber & David Wengrow "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" & "The Prehistory of Ptivate Property" by Grant S. McCall and Karl Widerquist You mentioned a family owning land for 75 years. Well let's go back far enough and we will find that land being violently stolen from indigenous who has complex forms of communal ownership over the land. Since that land was violently stolen, that brings into question the current ownership over that land. Can you explain where you got the notion that I want the government to own everything, because there is nowhere that I stated that. And communism isn't when the government owns property. Governments created private property in the first place. I want to go back to having everything be communally owned. If you think that means government ownership, it's clear you are not informed enough to have an informed opinion on this. You're right to private property was created by the violent take over of complex communally owned lands. Saying this isn't true means you only have bothered to read those who you agree with and take everything they say as fact, even though the justifications for private property have been fully debunked by modern anthropology.
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@LoveableLincoln32 Wow, you're so brilliant, pointing out that we all have been forced to be reliant on corporations.
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@alexaber9786 Let me see if I'm understand this. There was $500k a year in revenue. So that means if you don't claim a single thing, they will tax you on that $500k? If the answer is yes, then I'm not factually incorrect at all. If you have to add all the deductions to not be taxed on all $500k, then you are being taxed for revenue with expenses being write-offs. It just means you're super nitpicky
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@investmentanalyst779 I'm sorry, but you do not manage a $15B portfolio. It's weird to lie about that online. But yes, you do get taxed on revenue if you miss claiming some of your expenses.
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@Cfwmfal Thats capitalism
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@photo_jedi Then you elect someone else.
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@greygambit4013 How has everything else we have seen fail outright? And how can you claim capitalism hasn't failed. It completely failed during the great depression and was saved with public money. We saw it completely fail during the pandemic and was saved by trillions of dollars of public money. We see minor to major failures of capitalism on average every 4-7 years and it's always saved by public money. How can a system that claims to be all about the free market not work without being saved by the public? Then it has failed to give everyone a good living standard. There are countless peoples living in the capitalist third world that would have been better off under the stateless societies that has their complex forms of communal ownership violently stolen from them by the capitalists.
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@jonlittle5032 You're the one that's claiming he didnt do something everyone else ssays he did, which he did. So yeah, have fun with that. He absolutley supported dictatorships, you have to if you support his style of economics.
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@sofamiller7133 Answer the question. Do you think this neoliberal capitalism is good? If yes, how? Seems like you're just making nonsensical words up now. But yes, economics is just made up. It's not set in stone. It's a made human concept. Hahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahaha you cant make sure you're not writing nonsensical words and you're clearly really dumb if you think economics is completely natural and not man made.
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Capitalism is ruining our lives and has been for over 500 years
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God damn the NRA and their bullshit
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Oh wow, Biden is negotiating the prrices of an entire 10 drugs. Thats really taking them on...
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There's literally nothing outwardly virtuous about USA.
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@scottmolnar4132 Yes, the only people that would ever want to buy would be other landlords. No one wants to own the home they live in anymore. You are very smart.
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Sorry but Biden isn't bringing back the new deal. I don't want to downplay what the NLRB has been doing, but it's a far cry from what the new deal was, and intentionally tried to leave out everyone who wasn't white.
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 @user-cx5jj2yv3p It's irrelevant that that profile was created a month ago. Like I have probably 5 different Google accounts, one is only 3 months old.
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@RichardDuncan-ju1xk Tell me, which history should I read? Why is it that when people tell others to read something, they give no suggestions? So you should read "The dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and Dacid Wengrow. There is plenty of history in that book on indigenous peoples. Or is there something specific about the history you wish to mention? Go on, actually mention what you're talking about. What about history do I need to learn? And what are you talking about when it comes to giving back what isn't yours? Can you go into more detail on that? I know you won't bother to respond with what to actually read or ant lesson on history at all, but I hope you do. But since you won't, it's because you dont actually know what you're talking about and are just repeating propagandistic lines put out by people who creates myths about indigenous peoples. And for my next books suggestions. Read "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" by Grant S. McCall and Karl Widerquist When your done with that you should read "The Prehistory of Private Property" by the same writers. See how it's done. Now your turn. Actually suggest something to read instead of making an ambiguous comment.
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@Detrumpificator4377 I look at all the comments in this thread. Not a single one has harrasment. Don't make assumptions. it just makes an ass out of you.
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@grmpEqweer You can have structure without having a government.
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@JohnTaylor-fh4et The only reason gold has value is the same reason fiat money has value.
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@JohnTaylor-fh4et The best way is a moneyless society. That way we dont have to give anything a completely made up and arbitrary value so we can kill each other over it
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Democrats still let racists in the party. Joe Biden happens to be one of them.
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@siewheilou399 "100k is barely scrapping by for a two parents, two young growing children family, pre-savings-for-college-fund, household living in a big city like San Francisco." No, that's still pretty good. People in the same situation with less are some how getting by. Lets stop trying to claim a 6 figure salary means people are poor.
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@modemmark421 "Non-union Workers are too timid and/or ignorant to organize and are therefore" No, its not really either of these reasons. Its that they continue to get illegally fired for organizing. Its that there's massive amounts of union busting. Lets put the blame where it belongs, those with the power to ship jobs overseas. "They choose to be poor slaves" No they dont. Like, what the fuck is your problem. "they are NOT going to become My (or Your) customers, they are a drag upon our entire economy. " Yes, lets blame the poor people instead of the giant corporations that constantly break the law and get away with it due to them owning huge swaths of the government. Lets blame poor people instead of the mega corporations that have been shutting down factories and outsourcing jobs. And considering the vast majority of American workers are not unionized, its 100% false that they arent yours or anyone else's customers. They are. The majority of your customers arent unionized workers. Your hatred towards non-unionized workers is completely unjustified and isn't based in any reality. No one should support your business on the ground of you being an incredibly ugly person.
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@dominicgunderson How do you plan to ban it? What are your methods of enforcement going to be?
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@dominicgunderson "1. It would be illegal for all registers to include a tipping option. 2. It would be illegal for receipts to mention or refer to tipping" I'm willing to bet lawyers would argue tipping is a form of speech, and thus its a first amendment right and the law would be thrown out. "3. It would be illegal for waiters/waitresses to accept tips (and yes, they would be fired for doing so). Of course, people may still tip, but the culture of tipping would be shaken down." So you want to destroy the well being of servers all because they are fine accepting someone else's cash, which is really a gift. Tips are gifts. This is extremely authoritarian and frankly disgusting. "Enforcement would be largely unnecessary but could occasionally include inspectors and undercover agents." This would cost millions upon millions of dollars a year. You want to pay people a full salary with benefits to go out and spend money at food restaurants to maybe stop people handing servers small tips that are nowhere close to the amount we will be paying these officers and agents? You really think expanding the police state even more is what we need? You really think that's a good use of our limited resources? "Ultimately, the ban is less about punishing people for offering tips and more about destroying the culture of tipping." If your plan is to waste a huge amount of our limited resources to force employers to fire servers who accept what really is a gift, and on enforcers of the law, punishment is the point. Banning something never works and with how the American culture is, if you tried to ban tipping, servers would likely end up seeing more tips. I hope to god you are never given a position of power because you will be one authoritarian fuck
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Its actually all of us anarchists that they are scared of the most
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@pebblepod30 The only illegal immigrants are the white Europeans.
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Lol, places with "rent controls" continue to see new developments. The real reason new development isn't done is because of zoning laws. But yeah, you know how business works...
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@amitsunoko7270 Cool story bro
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@charlesphilhower1452 Only idiot here seems to be you. Houses require very little maintenance. Y'all act if y'all have to replace the roof every 3 years.
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@logans3365 Capitalism never started out great, though. It's always been shit for the majority.
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@BigTrees4ever "Smith came up with the term, he defined the term, and that’s that." No he didn't. The term "capitalism" was coined by socialist Louis Blanc to describe the economic system currently going on in his time. In Smiths time, capitalism was already happening for over 200 years. Capitalism got its start at around 1450. I have already read Smiths "Wealth of Nations". I found him to be a myth maker and nothing more, because that's what he did. He came up with the silly notion that barter came before bullion, even though that's not what happened. Barter has never happened in the way Smith describes. From Caroline Humphrey's "Barter and Economic Disintegration" “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing” Smiths entire basis for our economic system is just flat our wrong. We know from translating ancient Sumerian tablets that they used virtual money, or credit. Then at around 600 BC the first coins were invented. According to Smith the Sumerians should have been bartering with each other, yet they weren't. Barter between neighbors as Smith describes only happens in societies with bullion where the members don't have any cash on hand. His goal was to make it out so that the laws of economics is no different than the laws of physics, which means that they are immutable. Sadly, the laws of "economics" aren't set in stone and have changed countless times throughout human history. A study of anthropology shows this very much to be true. Again, Smith is a terrible person to look towards when it comes to how we should organize society. Trying to define capitalism purely on one philosophers definition is also naïve as fuck. Using the definition for capitalism set by someone trying to justify violent enclosure, imperialism, and colonialism is naïve as fuck. Enlightenment era philosophers by and large are terrible people to listen to when it comes to how we should organize society. To me, the best people to define capitalism are those who have been oppressed by it, not those who benefit off it. The beneficiaries will always try to downplay any oppression happening under their system. Why wouldn't they?
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@LoveableLincoln32 Why do towns need economic prospect? Dont you see how you are pointing out a major contradiction with capitalism?
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@zacharyharwell351 No, they really dont.
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@bigmike9433 You're very likely lying, and if you aren't, what's your point exactly? Do you think you as an employer are representative of all employers everywhere? I swear you morons can only take things personally when everyone else is talking about systemic issues.
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Nah, they had the money, they just didn't want to spend it. Don't ever believe a landlord when they say they don't have money. Its always a lie.
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@seriouslyshortofnormal925 "They don't." Yes, they do. You saying they dont doesnt change the reality of the global capitalist world.
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@jonathanjones3126 "Nationalized assets usually fall apart and are very poorly managed" No they dont and no they aren't. They fall apart because under global capitalist all the capitalists choose to divest from economies that are nationalizing, which completely destroys the economy. Keep deep throating that boot.
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@jonathanjones3126 "workers use the tools and resources provided by the owners" The "owner" couldn't buy the tools without the profits generated by the workers in the first place. "he workers get their of the share of the profits in wages." Wages aren't profits. Wages are an expense. "I they want more they should open their own business" Cant do that when wages are so low they dont even cover the full cost of living. Stay on your knees for the capitalist's. You are never going to be rich. You will forever be an embarrassed wannabe millionaire.
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@seriouslyshortofnormal925 "The person suggesting the profits should go to the workers would never accept the inverse: that the costs should also go to the workers meaning that workers would not be paid if no profit exists, " Sounds like you dont understand what a worker cooperative is. A worker cooperative is a company owned by the workers. That means they have to also think about the costs of business. Which means your statement is just a completely ignorant statement. Workers getting the profits while also thinking about the cost of business already exists. "Another issue is that the extreme focus on getting workers paid at the expense of the owners is that it requires an infringement on both liberty and property," Oh wow, not your property which was originally stolen from indigenous people through mass violence. It amazes me how you can claim to care about property rights when this entire system is built off the genocide of indigenous peoples to steal the land that rightfully belongs to them And what about their liberty. Why dont you liberals care about indigenous peoples liberty? All that matters to you liberals is profit, and anyone who stops you from making profit is is infringing on your liberty and property. Yeah, fuck your liberal bullshit. Until you liberals give all land back to the indigenous that occupied it first, you have no leg to stand on when it comes to property and liberty rights. I highly recommend you read the books "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy" & "The Prehistory of Private Property" by Grant McCall and Karl Widerquist "Forgive me if I'm unsympathetic to those who would violate the rights of others for short-term gains," The only people who care about short term gains are the capitalists. The only people who care about short term gains are those who preach liberty and property rights while profiting off indigenous land violently stolen. The entire conquest of the Americas was all about short term gains and paying off ever growing debt. You dont care about liberty or property rights. You care about profits.
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@hg2. "$60 billion dollars worth of copper is a gift to the world, and and these schmoes have no right to stand in the way of it." Wow, weird seeing this copy and pasted PR statement here. Do you have no life? Probably not considering literally no one in life loves or likes you.
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Capitalism is clearly the best socioeconomic system we can do...
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@Demopans5990 Lol, if we want the money to stay in the community longer maybe the small buisness owners should pay better. A single individual is meaningless, and with today's globalist world, that buisness owner is likely to spend that money on giant corporations anyways or will just hoard it. Small buisness owners are no different than large buisness owners.
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@Leto2ndAtreides "But also, investment firms are how people grow their 401Ks for their retirements." Why should people need 401ks for retirement in the first place? "There's also the fact that the correct allocation of capital is important for the economy itself" Important for who exactly? "The modern world is complex, and human emotions never evolved to deal with this stuff... Which is also why humanity has taken over a 100K years to drag itself here" Drag itself where exactly? Can you go into more detail of what you mean by this? "Because human instincts are just not suited to making life better for everyone." Yes they are, you are just looking at human instincts completely removed from nature and instead in a society based purely on greed.
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@Natty183 "Why don't y'all just read a book? Oh, you probably can't read" Oh wow, ad hominem's, how surprising coming from someone who clearly doesn't understand Rand's "Philosophy" and refuses to engage with anyone in an intellectual manner when they have a different interpretation. Atlas Shrugged is a 1000 page snore fest of some whiny brat who was upset that her families massive wealth was rightfully given back to the people that they originally stole it from. sElFiShNeSs Is GoOd. That's the entire basis of here philosophy, even though humanity never would have survived if people were naturally selfish. Humanities existence alone disproves the idea that selfishness is good. Maybe you could try studying modern anthropology at some point, or MaYbE yOu JuSt CaNt ReAd And this is the biggest problem with Ayn Rand's works, it completely ignores that all wealth is stolen from the backs of the working class and the Indigenous peoples who occupied the land first and then had it violently stolen.
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@smh9902 "The sad part is that most millioniares in the industrial age were people that made the world a better place." No they are people who raped the planet and did everything they can to keep the working class as poor as possible just so they can be rich and have power over the poor.
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@hg2. "$60 billion dollars worth of copper is a gift to the world, and and these schmoes have no right to stand in the way of it." Do you think copy and pasting the same thing makes you look intelligent? Because all of us see right through you. All your doing is repeating PR lines put out by the mining companies.
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@hg2. "Ask your average California conservative what they think of the Sierra Club." Care to explain the relevance?
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Trump was also unelectable, and yet he was president for 4 years
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@barbarabrown2226 Wow, that's like so funny. I see instead of being an adult and telling my I'm wrong, you're just going to show that you're to stupid to be able to do so. Care to attempt to tell me why I'm wrong, or do you just want to continue saying government scare tactics about smoking weed. Plenty if brilliant people do drugs.
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@johnhatchel9681 Are you to stupid to actually read what they said. They said we should ban corporations from owning property. Tell me why we should continue to let multi-billion dollar corporations buy up massive amounts of housing just to rent it out?
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@senster45 Its true, only governments or corporations can own land. There are literally no other ways of doing it at all.
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@machone539 No, landlords and banks are forcing me into renting. I would love to buy, but my credit is shit because I have gone though two major economic downturns where I needed to use credit, and then there are far to many employers who think I shouldn't be paid a wage that can allow me to keep up with the cost of living. Private property was literally created to exploit people, I'm sorry you're to stupid to have done any actual research into any of this and instead just repeat the well debunked capitalist talking points If you would actually like to learn something I would be happy to help you on your journey, but you just aren't interested in growth. K bye
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@landlordnation Better question. What makes housing cost so much right now? If it was purely based on how much it cost to build, do you think housing would be so expensive? Housing doesn't need to be expensive. It shouldn't be used as an investment tool. That's why housing cost so much, every owner expect to gain a huge profit off the sale. You also have to factor in that people renting homes takes them off the real estate market causing artifical scarcity for the real estate market. Past societies have had no problem making sure everyone is housed. It's especially easy when you don't have people expecting profit. There are different ways to do things other than government ownership or private property.
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@rebeccaspratling2865 Yes, I get that. That's not using them simultaneously.
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@YouilAushana Why do we need a rat race in the first place?
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@inviz1769 No, but you sound like an idiot And there are other ways to do things than private property regimes or state regimes.
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 @trestiles1914 Why do people need to rent? Why can we go back to having communal ownership, as the majority of humans throughout the majority of our existence has done.
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@trestiles1914 Who exactly would be paying a mortgage if all housing is communally owned? That makes literally no sense at all. Like if you don't understand something, why speak so confidently? Why not ask how it would work instead?
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@trestiles1914 "mainly because it’s not feasible" You literally started off with an assertion. If you believe it isn't feasible, you need to go into detail of why it isn't feasible. You do not get to make the statement that its feasible, thus making it out as if you already understand how communal ownership works, and then turn around and ask how it works. What is it, you know how it works and have deemed it unfeasible, or you have no idea and want to learn more? Since you started off with the assertion, you need to tell me why it isn't feasible first. Keep in mind, that for the majority of humanities existence, between a group everything was communally owned. Saying something that humans have done for the majority of humanities existence isn't feasible is clearly a false statement. If we did it before we can do it again. Why does communally owned projects need funding? If they do need funding, than why wouldn't the community fund it? Why would a privately owned bank be needed? If we make all housing communally owned, why wouldn't we do that with almost everything else? If we made everything else communally owned, what use would money be? If we have no use for money, why would house builders need to be paid in it? What if instead we all participated in society and realized what we do is necessary and that if we all made sure we all had our basic needs met no one would need to acquire money to purchase things. "How about you make a real point instead of living in some dream world. I’m open to listening" How can you sit there and claim you are open to listening when just before you claimed I lived in some dream world. Those two statements are contradictory.
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@kapriece Weird, wealth accumulation has been happening long before private property was invented
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@psychozen7169 Why would there be less builders? And why do we need rental property to exist?
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@TheRealLesterGreen "It’s scary that 2900 people liked that comment he made." Why is that scary?
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@stevetaxpayer6664 Why cant apartment complexes be communally owned?
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@dontdoxmebro "Google Karl Marx bro" What do you think that will accomplish?
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@machone539 "dude, why not ban all personal things from clothes to your bodies?" Are you not capable of having dialog without saying incredibly stupid shit?
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@mwatercress "Some of the most deplorable living conditions are in government-owned and run housing." Would love to see the evidence for this
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@eshine2001 " people apparently think that buildings and apartments just fucking build and maintain themselves" No one thinks that. Humans have been building housing long before private property or corporations ever existed.
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@TheRealLesterGreen "you are restricting one’s rights to generate wealth." Cant generate wealth without first exploiting people. Why shouldn't exploitation be restricted? Why does your wealth generation come before the good of everyone else?
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@hauntedbelle "as someone who lives in government housing I can tell you, that's a horrible idea." So your experience is the same of every person around the world that lives in publicly owned housing?
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@MrCtwo22 "instead of you renting a well kept apartment complex" You do understand there's the category of landlords called "slumlords" right? Just blanket assuming all landlords maintain there property well is just a completely false statement. When a person rents, they are paying the mortgage, property tax, maintenance, and profit. If a person can afford to rent, they can afford to buy and maintain a home. Y'all act as if homes need constant maintenance, when they really fucking don't. And none of this addresses the countless landlords who don't do any maintenance because there state laws state they do not need make a home they rent out liveable.
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@dentonliving5299 Define freedom
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@dentonliving5299 "he regulators would abuse the power." Why do you believe private property owners don't also abuse their power?
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@BlueRidgeBubble "It will never be feasible due to human nature. Lol" what is human nature exactly?
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@Bethany_mo "what you fail to understand is that the land lord is paying a mortgage and taxes on the property plus taxes on the income from said property." All of that is paid for by the renter.
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@machone539 Correct, abolish capitalism
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@lt3096 "Excuse me? How do you think you should have the right to tell me what to do with my house." Weird, thats what the Europeans did to the natives when yall stole the natives land in the first place.
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@vickieclark5931 "That would be smart. Then we would be paying rent for the rest of our lives and never be able to retire." That's how it already is for the majority of people now
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@six6goddess214 Why do you need two homes?
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@eliot5220 They paid over a quarter million in rent. That's why they cant afford to buy a house, you keep exploiting them for their hard earned money. Along with the fact that you and others keep hoarding houses which takes them off the market which causes a shortage.
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@uromvictor Housing was built before private property or corporations or money ever existed.
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@eliot5220 Not apologizing for you exploiting other people. Just because you haven't raised her rent (I call complete bullshit, there is no way you bought a house just recently and can afford to only charge someone $600, cant yall try and make up more believable stories?) doesn't mean you aren't exploiting her. You are taking someone else's hard earned money for a building someone else built. you cant claim you're providing housing, because that housing already existed. And she's clearly not your only tenet since you went on about owning so many other properties. You made it obvious that you are exploiting other people for your own gain. There are also more options that could benefit her better than a private landlord or government owned.
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@machone539 Breaking in and stealing stuff You literally just described capitalism. Capitalism history is nothing other than Europeans violently conquering the world to set up private property regimes. Moron
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@stevetaxpayer6664 Yes, I am very well aware of that and I am in this thread arguing for communally owned land.
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@dentonliving5299 The landlord can also kill you by evicting you. Landlords also get to have the power of the state behind theme. Tenets dont.
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@rhipotter6191 You need 0 to rent and vacation homes can be shared. Why do you believe you should get to exploit others through rental properties?
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@seriouslyshortofnormal925 China is capitalist, at least according to China. China doesnt plan to have a socialist economy until 2050. Good job on showing how little you fucking know
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@eugenecrawford14 "Capitalism and communism economy s always ends the same" No they dont, and thanks for telling us you dont understand what a stateless, classless, and moneyless society is. I mean communism.
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@jjoohhhnn "Claiming it for the workers basically means the government buys out the shareholders" We have no need to do that. You know who we did that for essentially? Slave owners. We do not and should not reward these people in any way. "How do you intend to take it from them, otherwise? With force? You're going to violently overthrow the US government? Good luck with that one, bruv." So its either buy it all out and keep them insanely wealthy, or toppling the US government. Those are the only two options to you? The only ways we can do it? However, the US government does not to be eliminated. The US as a political project must come to an end. We have been doing genocide for centuries against so many cultures, there is no other way than complete elimination of our government. "we elect the board of directors the way we elect senators" We could try out worker councils instead. It can all be made way more democratic for everyone instead of keeping this shit "representative democracy" but slightly different. We could look at indiginous cultures and try to learn from them on governance. That would probably be a very good idea. "Clean it up correctly in a way that helps workers and instills faith in the justice system AVOIDING a violent transfer of power while still offering restorative justice " You can not clean up the capitalist system. You cent just vote socialists in and then that's it. That's not how systemic change works. No one should have faith in the justice system for there was never any reason to have faith in it in the first place. The justice system continues to be a part in the oppression of the natives. 1"ow do you plan to organize? Through what group do you intend to congregate under and to what SPECIFIC POLICY GOALS do you have?" Have you ever heard of unions? They have a very socialist history, and they used to have massive political power. And asking a single person what their goals are is pointless. This is a COLLECTIVE effort. We all work on the goals together. "How do you intend to organize in a way that doesn't allow the movement to be fractured and destroyed like the hippies, civil rights activists, punks, gangs, etc.? Assuming you can answer that, what's your battle plan to take the nation? What materials do you need, how long will it take, what are some primary objectives?" These are ridiculous questions to ask a singular person. Not any one person can ever answer these. It doesnt work that way. ITS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT. You seem to think you have some gotcha, but you dont. You're just being intellectually dishonest. "Lmao, or is this 'glorious revolution' too real for you now?" And this right here proves that. You are an intellectually dishonest person. Please do better and act more like an adult. "Ugh, I don't even think you have any concepts on how a post scarcity society would ACTUALLY function" We already live in a post scarcity society, and again, a singular person does not need to know how a post scarcity society works. Its a COLLECTIVE effort. We all figure it out together. "let alone a totally command economy. Complete command economics is terrible." No one brought up a command economy besides you. And yes, they have worked. Corporations use very similar models that the USSR did, they just now have the advantage of powerful computers to help, which is what the USSR needed. And yes, they are terrible, but no where as bad as free market economics. And again, you're the one who brought up command economies so you could argue against them, More intellectual dishonesty " No one knows how to do that equitably, and in the past it has lead to some of the worst authoritarianism in recent history." Yeah, thats why we all work COLLECTIVLEY to figure it out. And the worst authoritarianism came from capitalism. "Try outlining some policy solutions" Try acting like an adult first "But I know a lot of trendy leftists think economics and logistics management is bourgeoise decadence." You clearly know nothing about leftists. You sound like you have gobbled up a shit ton of capitalist propaganda and have yet to deprogram yourself.
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You're proud of only 10 drugs being negotiated and only for people on Medicare, and it doesn't go into effect until 2026, which means it can easily be thrown out. Yall need to not be so easily impressed.
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@balsalmalberto8086 Ford was a nazi
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We already live in a dystopia and this country was founded by capitalists for capitalists
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 @cherryghost15 Yeah, no shit. But the Democrats claim to be the party of the workers...
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@youtubesucks1499 "Not really. Union wages cost the consumer more. " No they dont, the greed of capitalists do. We only have to raise wages because the capitalists keep demanding more and more profit, which causes our goods to be more and more expensive. "if my employees tried to bring in a union, I would close the business and retire." Because you're a piece of shit, but that would actually require you to own a business, which you dont.
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@youtubesucks1499 We get it, you hate unions and spend all day trolling MPU stuff because you live in your moms basement and dont have a job.
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@lindalapic2184 You burn it down and start anew
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Well, didn't you hear? They are negotiating the drug prices of only 10 drugs and those new prices will only affect people on Medicare, and they won't go into effect until 2026, when the new republican president will just throw it out. Trust me, this is big.../s
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@kimmieb2u Except your wrong. There are thousands of rent controlled units in NYC that landlords simply refuse to rent out. If this was about money, renting at at rent controlled price would be better than owning empty property not bringing in any money. The real problem is that the rich have so much money they can afford to not rent out these units in a form of fucked up protest to try and get the government to change the laws so they can profit even more than they originally would have. If you can afford to hold onto property for years keeping it vacant and not bringing in any money, you can afford maintenance here and there while renting it out. Also, we want landlords to sell their extra properties so more people can own the homes they live in. People keep crying about rental properties not being on the market while ignoring that homeownership is on the decline. A big reason is that mega corporations keep buying up most of the new units to rent out at absurd prices. Sounds like this whole private property thing isnt working out, and considering the justifications for it are rooted in literal myth and not fact, we should throw it all out and start again.
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Lol, the landlord wont lose money. When losers like you say this, you don't factor in the fact the tenet is paying the mortgage building you equity, and you also get the gains off that equity that someone else is building for you. On top of the gains you receive from someone else building you equity, you also expect profit from the monthly rent, yet when your monthly profit off the rent goes slightly down, you all expect us to have sympathy for you. Get a real job and stop living off others. Maybe don't own more property than you can live in at a single time? I just solved your problem. The fucking entitlement from you feudal lords is insane. ""In terms of cooperation vs. competition: When times are hard folks will cooperate, when times are good folks will compete. I'm sorry that times have been hard for you. If you get a job in STEM, though, you will do alright. Never too late to start." This statement is literally based on nothing. You literally made it up. Its not true. When times are good, folks also cooperate."
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@investmentanalyst779 Making a second comment after lying on the internet about managing a $15B dollar portfolio is funny as fuck. Forget to claim one of your expenses, and you are now paying taxes on revenue. Stop lying on the internet about what you do for work. It's not something you can ever prove on YouTube, so lying about it just looks dumb.
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@hg2. "And renewable energy is 21st century pyramid building. " Literally everything under capitalism is a pyramid "nd it's criminal that trivial selfish leverage can stand in the way of it." The only selfish thing is you and the capitalists believing you have the right to completely destroy someone else's land just for profit. So, how much of your 401k is tied up in all of this?
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@hg2. "^^ believes in human sacrifice." This is pure projection. You are on the side of the mining companies that literally poison peoples water supply to kill them so the mining companies can come in and destroy the local ecology just to make a massive amount of profit. You are on the side of genocide all for the sake of profit.
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GOOD Sell so someone can buy it and actually live in it. You say you will sell it as if thats a bad thing. Landlords are literally just leeches
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@Gfish17 Big difference between you playing a pickup game with your friends which generates zero revenue, and playing for a college sports team that generates million/billions of dollars of revenue. Not to forget that the college athlete has likely dedicated a huge part of their life to the game, where you may play ball with the boys a few times a month.
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@Gfish17 Nope. I can assure you that you dont train as hard as college athletes.
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What happened is what is inevitable with capitalism. You chain down capitalism and capitalism will break those chains.
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@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy Cronyism is a natural part of capitalism. Not a single worker is practicing capitalism. Capitalism is when the means of production are privately owned. The owners are the ones doing capitalism. The workers arent.
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@danielyeary148 I mean, a stateless, classless, and moneyless society has never been achieved, so it's TRUE that communism has never been tried. But we have been trying this capitalism thing for over 400 years now
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@stockk5128 No, that's not how that works
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@SingleTrackMined Again, they aren't a good server to YOU. They don't meet YOUR standards. They may also just had someone die and cant take time off work because they have no benefits at all. If you cant tip every server who is being paid significantly less than minimum wage, then maybe you need to stop going out to eat. You are a very entitled person
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 @brentx1940 Only weak person here is you.
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@nunyabidness3075 Crony capitalism is just normal capitalism. I completely disagree with the statement that USA culture and diversity are the problem. Well, not the culture part. We are a culture of white supremacy and that is where the true problem lies
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@james10739 No, electricity has become a basic necessity for us.
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@blue4348 Or you could stop being a cry baby
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@Atreus21 The holocaust was done by capitalists. The Bengal famine was done by capitalists. The genocide of the natives of America was done by capitalists. The slave trade was done by capitalists. The USA, a capitalist country did genocide in Vietnam, Laos, and Korea (and a lot of other places). Capitalism is the sole cause of climate change. The great leap forward was Chinas last ever famine, which is good because before that they had 2-3 famines a year and millions were dying. The great leap forward saved hundreds of millions of people and has made China into the world super power it is today. You're a very ignorant and propagandized person
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@jamisonleckenby2355 He can do executive orders. The people can also burn shit down. It's what won us many of the rights we have today
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How much money they paying Mayor Mila Besich?
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@landlordnation I never claimed all landlords are colluding together. Get some reading comprehension skills. But its well established landlords are colluding through many different programs to raise rents together so the "market rate" goes up and the higher rents are justified. I would love to buy a house, but houses were turned into investments and thus people expect them to have continuous gains, which raised the price of houses faster than wages necessary to buy a house and now I cant afford to buy a house even though I work a good full time job. There's another way to stop it. We abolish private property and purge all the leeches from society. And leech is the correct term because landholding doesn't add any positive value to society, but instead takes homes off the market that someone else could have bought to live in. Hard to buy a house when people keep buying more than they need. Maybe people like you should stop being greedy and just get a real job like the rest of us. Like, have you even bothered to think about any of this at all? Its really pretty simple, but when all you can think about is how to make yourself more wealth, why would you bother to think about it?
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 @Window4503 He doesnt have a concience. Every billionaire is a literal psychopath.
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I thought this plot was obvious as daylight
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This is literally it. It's all about the lawsuits. If she could enslave people to work at dollar general she would.
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 @dvdv8197 MPU seems to be very much a "vote blue no matter who" organization.
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@berg8970 The answer to capitalism is its abolishing. Capitalism was born out of the Western European empires leaving their tiny sphere and violently conquering the world through enclosure, colonialism, and imperialism. We can not constrain a system where violence is the only way it has spread, and violence is the only way it's maintained.
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@Scott-fy7fm Private Property regimes, or capitalism, was literally created by governments. Capitalism has always been about governments creating the winners and losers. What's funny is that the word capitalism was coined by a socialist to describe the economic system they were living in. Then, the capitalists co-opted the word and changed its definition to what you say it is. This change is literal propaganda. Capitalism Capitalism is a socio-economic system based on private property ownership of the means of production and the exploitation of the labor force. Capitalism has nothing to do with free markets, and capitalism can not function without a large government. The massive number of scams in the deregulated crypto market clearly proves that.
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@berg8970 Please go into more detail.
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@berg8970 How do these taxes stop corporations from becoming to powerful? I'm not sure what public infrastructure has to do with breaking up corporations.
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@berg8970 If you want equal opportunity, you're going to need to do away with capitalism. Capitalism by design is not meant to have equal opportunity. Why are you so convinced that an economic system that's less than 600 years old and has caused more death and poverty than anything else is the right way to go? Taxes were once high in USA, and there certainly was more regulation and citizens united didn't exist and we sdidnt have balance or equal opportunity then.
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@vectorhacker-r2 hE dId NoT Wow, great proof that he didn't, I see why people take you so seriously
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@eliyahubenysrael6272 If you think Friedman didn't support dictatorships and authortarian regimes, I have a bridge to sell you in brooklyn
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@jonlittle5032 No, capitalism fails because of the purposeful overproduction in capitalism. Maybe you should read socio-economic theory that isnt written by those who believe they have the right to exploit the world for their gain. Until you do, you have a very uninformed opinion. Seriously, people like you just embarass yourself with your continued misunderstanding of what capitalism is and how it functions. No one cares about your basic economics class. Your basic economics are just that, basic. However real world economics are not basic, and just believing what capitalist economists say at face value without ever reading any theory from anti-capitalist writers makes it so you have an uninformed opinion. Theres a plethora of information out there that you willingly choose to ignore. Hurry up and go read some Marx and other philosophers like him. Then you can finally have an informed opinion and you can stop think you have to simplify something you actually dont understand.
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@aycc-nbh7289 Don't know what a settler is, do ya?
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@tofu_golem No, our ancestors came to America so they can have new lands to exploit since everything was already owned in Europe. They came for capitalist expansion and they did genocide against the natives to forcibly remove them because land is more profitable when you dont have to pay for it.
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