3 ms·

"You have one more grain of rice than you did last year, so stop complaining that that guy over there has 1000 times more than he did last year. Be happy with w

by ionised 11y ago

"You have one more grain of rice than you did last year, so stop complaining that that guy over there has 1000 times more than he did last year. Be happy with whatcha got!" Also this; > made mostly through their labor and innovation is demonstrably untrue in many cases.

TheLogothete 11y ago
Yeah that's very emotionally striking and all, but doesn't really put things into perspective, which is very typical for communist propaganda. "One grain of rice" does not even begin to describe how much more prosperous capitalist society is than (post) communist ones.
- ionised 11y ago
  Except I'm not a communist and I don't believe in communism. I'm just not naive enough to think that the ever widening income inequality and wealth consolidation/hoarding is not a bad thing. And the grain of rice wasn't meant literally.
saiya-jin 11y ago
where is that downvote button when you really need it... anyway, it's pretty damn obvious you didn't grow up in one of those marvelous "socialist/communist" societies that look wonderfully on the paper, yet fail miserably and consistently in real life. I've been there, and still getting to position of understanding naivety of some otherwise clever people in this topic (popular in western europe among young who grew up in a different systems, not sure about rest of the world). All these regimes do is bring out the worst in people in it, get into very ineffective modes of rule and centralized management, gradual (or sudden) loss of various freedoms, etc. Hard work, innovation should be rewarded, not corrupt allegiance to current ruling elite. This mode brings the best out of people in matter of contribution to mankind. What we can improve is the ruleset/boundaries in law, punishing usage of loopholes, off shore taxation and similar. But people on that list didn't get there by avoiding taxes. it would be nice if some Star Trek utopia would work, but we as humans and mankind are just not there yet, for various reasons. Maybe you are, but according to what you wrote, in contrary. Now go throw a rock on some McDonald franchise, that will surely make you feel like contributing to well-being of all of us a bit. or even better - move to Russia, it's a fine example of a country sliding back to where it came from, or even better, true communist paradise - North Korea (let me guess, you don't have something important for that, do you)
- ionised 11y ago
  That's an awful lot of words with no substance to basically label me a pinko commie. I'm not a communist, nor have I ever believed communism as a system works. Feel free to continue spouting your gung-ho rhetoric though.

by ionised 11y ago

TheLogothete 11y ago

Yeah that's very emotionally striking and all, but doesn't really put things into perspective, which is very typical for communist propaganda. "One grain of rice" does not even begin to describe how much more prosperous capitalist society is than (post) communist ones.

ionised 11y ago
Except I'm not a communist and I don't believe in communism. I'm just not naive enough to think that the ever widening income inequality and wealth consolidation/hoarding is not a bad thing. And the grain of rice wasn't meant literally.

saiya-jin 11y ago

where is that downvote button when you really need it... anyway, it's pretty damn obvious you didn't grow up in one of those marvelous "socialist/communist" societies that look wonderfully on the paper, yet fail miserably and consistently in real life. I've been there, and still getting to position of understanding naivety of some otherwise clever people in this topic (popular in western europe among young who grew up in a different systems, not sure about rest of the world). All these regimes do is bring out the worst in people in it, get into very ineffective modes of rule and centralized management, gradual (or sudden) loss of various freedoms, etc. Hard work, innovation should be rewarded, not corrupt allegiance to current ruling elite. This mode brings the best out of people in matter of contribution to mankind. What we can improve is the ruleset/boundaries in law, punishing usage of loopholes, off shore taxation and similar. But people on that list didn't get there by avoiding taxes. it would be nice if some Star Trek utopia would work, but we as humans and mankind are just not there yet, for various reasons. Maybe you are, but according to what you wrote, in contrary. Now go throw a rock on some McDonald franchise, that will surely make you feel like contributing to well-being of all of us a bit. or even better - move to Russia, it's a fine example of a country sliding back to where it came from, or even better, true communist paradise - North Korea (let me guess, you don't have something important for that, do you)

ionised 11y ago
That's an awful lot of words with no substance to basically label me a pinko commie. I'm not a communist, nor have I ever believed communism as a system works. Feel free to continue spouting your gung-ho rhetoric though.