Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Why don't we fix poverty? Matt Desmond interview" video.

@thesmilingtouristguide4931 that's pretty nebulous, that sounds like things you just see as basic, that you're arbitrarily labeling as "basic rights" to appeal to emotions and make it seem like anyone who disagrees with you is a bad person. There are only 2 kinds of rights, positive rights, that are allowed by a governing authority, and negative rights, or natural rights, that can't be granted because they can only be taken away. A positive right would be health insurance, you're not born with the right to have health insurance, it requires someone to offer insurance and enforcement from the government. You're demanding the right to someone's labor, at the barrel of a gun. A negative right is the right to free speech, you don't have to ask for the right to say whatever you want, that right can only be taken away from you.
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Gay.
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@shakeyj4523 "over the top libertarianism" to you is just telling people to stop crying and fix their own personal problems? Wow. That's a pretty low bar.
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Because you can't "fix" people making bad decisions. That's part of life. There will always be people who have more than others. You're supposed to be an adult, and be happy with what you have, and if you're not, you work to earn more. What you don't do is cry about how it's someone else's fault, and someone else should have to fix it.
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No. It's a personal choice. People come from the poorest countries in the world and have a middle class family within one generation in the US. It's not impossible, leftists just aren't willing to work for anything.
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@Stonecoldfrank imagine how incompetent you have to be to think your personal failures are the fault of government. Don't mistake government "incompetence" for malice, they know exactly what they're doing, and the left asked for it. Leftists are just too stupid to understand the consequences of their policies.
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Free this, free that, socialists are always talking about what they should get, but I never hear them talk about what they're willing to do.
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@wizzelhoart and I'm willing to bet you benefit from taxes more than you give up.
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@jaybennet4491 I'm not the one crying about how anyone should give me anything, I don't want or need anything for free. I'm doing fine, and the people I care about are doing fine, because we're decent people who work for a living and don't demand anyone else's wealth or property.
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@blktarockstar818 giving people free handouts isn't "caring", it's enabling. And your cheap appeals to emotion mean nothing to me, I've seen your kind clapping and cheering for violent rioters destroying the businesses and livelihoods of lower class people just trying to get by the right way, the honest way. You don't care about anyone but yourselves.
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@denesewarn8003 the US has one of the most expansive welfare programs in the world, what in the fuck are you talking about, "no safety net"? That's just objectively false. Maybe you want bigger safety nets, you're free to have your opinion, but how big do you want them?
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How do you define a "basic right"?
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@thesmilingtouristguide4931 not relevant, I'm only trying to show you that you're using manipulative language that really means nothing, and is only meant to manipulate. Something isn't a right just because you say it's a right.
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@thesmilingtouristguide4931 so you don't even care about actually understanding political concepts, you would rather just be ruled by emotional control and manipulation. Sounds about right.
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@thesmilingtouristguide4931 your path is just being willfully manipulated by people who think you're stupid. And the more you continue on your path, the more you prove them right.
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So you care about being richer than you are now.
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@Mr7c2ll owning a house isn't a basic necessity, it's a luxury, and it's fine if that's a goal of yours, I think most people want to own a home at one point. But it isn't going to happen by stamping your foot and demanding that someone give it to you. Take matters into your own hands, earn more money, spend less money. Make sacrifices. You don't get something just because you want it, life doesn't work that way. It never has, and it never will.
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Exactly, and the period where we saw the most economic growth and lowest poverty rates was when there weren't social safety nets, and people had to figure out a way to support themselves.
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@jaybennet4491 so you're blaming stagnant minimum wage for problems that didn't exist when there was no minimum wage? Derpy derp. It's big brain time.
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@shakeyj4523 so maybe you should stop asking the billionaire owned politicians for help, and fix your own problems. Politicians only have the power that we give them.
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Poor people in capitalist countries have a better quality of life than the middle class in socialist countries.
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Why do you think food costs more at a restaurant than if you buy it and cook the same thing at home? You're paying for labor. That's nothing new.
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@Mister_Listener well if you provide insurance to your employees, then your labor costs are going to be higher. What part of this is hard to understand?
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Or maybe you could do something for yourself.
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Because you're an adult sized child who never got over being jealous because your classmate got better Christmas presents than you.
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@AbyssalMelody it's not for me to decide, that's what the market is for. If someone is rich, that means someone decided whatever it is they do is valuable. Otherwise they wouldn't have paid them. It's not for me to decide what value other people put on other people's labor, and the government shouldn't be in charge in making those decisions either. Other governments have tried that before, it always ends the same way, and it's not pretty.
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@shakeyj4523 dismissing someone as a "troll" without even attempting to address anything they say is a tactic cults use to control their flock, they usually refer to them as "sinners" or something to that effect. It emotionally manipulates the flock into thinking they're doing something bad by even listening to what someone outside of the cult says. It keeps them obedient, because they refuse to hear anything unless another cult member is saying it.
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@shakeyj4523 if you can't explain exactly what I'm wrong about, and how you know I'm wrong, not why you think I'm wrong, then that's you accidentally admitting that you know I'm right.
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Maybe you should have planned for your retirement more thoughtfully.
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@shakeyj4523 of course things don't always go as planned, that's why you do the best you can to plan when you can, so you're better prepared for what you can't plan. It's called being an adult.
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@shakeyj4523 well, yes. If you made good decisions in life, and took responsibility for the mistakes you made, and took control of the things you can control, then you wouldn't be in the YouTube comment sections crying about how daddy government should have to bail you out, with the money given to them by people who make good decisions. That is a completely reasonable assumption.
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@liveandletdie7187 those programs exist for a reason, they've just gotten out of control. And you're probably lying, if a leftist is talking, there's almost a 100% chance they're lying. You probably had a minor injury when you were 28 and have just been milking the system ever since. I know what you creatures are.
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How many Americans do you think starve every year? Go ahead, give an estimate.
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