Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "Am I far left?" video.

  1. ​ @12theotherandrew but even in schools and hospitals, there's room for centralisation if done bottom up (what are most or all local leaders wanting that benefits from efficiency of scale) rather than top down (what does some ivory tower manager think local leaders need)
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  2. Bet she doesn't refuse a state pension later in life though 🤔
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  3. ​ @garyb455 the free market will sort it out. Another wealthy person who isn't a tax dodger will move in to fill the gap
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  4. I'd rather tax billionaires more. It's got a better track record than deporting marginalised groups and becoming insular
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  5. There is a mechanism for redistributing from productive people to unproductive people It's called "rentier capitalism"
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  6.  @jameswhyte5094  I am not sure you can take activity that involves investing capital, with the intention of aquiring more capital and not call it capitalism. How does that work?
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  7.  @jameswhyte5094  you're going to get a planned economy if all the investment descisions are concentrated in a few hands. That's true whether the consolidation mechanism is revolution and dictatorship, or corporate buyouts
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  8. It's a universal problem in communication - different people can see different meanings behind the same label Use labels when you're confident your audience broadly takes the same meaning, and elaborate more explicitly if in doubt Doesn't help that some bad actors are actively muddying definitions and seeding confusion to propagandise and distract 🙁
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