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There are always theoreticians who don't really know what they're talking about, but do offer their utterly worthless advice. I'm not talking about you, or any

by 0xbear 9y ago

There are always theoreticians who don't really know what they're talking about, but do offer their utterly worthless advice. I'm not talking about you, or anybody else on this thread in particular. Without sufficient pushback, sooner or later these people screw things up for everybody, including themselves, and the poor are hit the hardest by the fallout 100% of the time. When it becomes obvious that they screwed things up, you get people like me telling you just how fucked things can get if you head in that direction, de facto, because we've been there. When you don't have people like me, you head in that direction, because let's face it, most people think that if we just take all the wealth and spread it evenly everyone will be better off. That's not how the world works, however, but it takes decades to go through these cycles to find out for yourself. Greed is good, inequality in outcomes is good. What's bad is inequality in opportunity, and there's less of that here than in most other countries. If you were just born here, you already have the golden ticket. The trick is to not wipe your butt with it.

banned1 9y ago
There is no point in trying to convince the masses of liberally-inspired, rich privileged people who have never had the courage to face and understand the arguments of the other side, or the masses of liberally-inspired poor people who rather than work to improve themselves see themselves as victims and see the others as the source of the solution to their problems. Here is an interesting point: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-problem-with-social-justice-warriors.html?m=1 http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-problem-w...
- 0xbear 9y ago
  Ironically, the lack of ability to blame someone else for one's misfortune was the only good thing about USSR style socialism. When everyone is poor, you can't blame the rich for anything.
ScottBurson 9y ago
> What's bad is inequality in opportunity Agreed. > and there's less of that here than in most other countries. I've seen evidence that the US is actually not doing that well on this scale, particularly measured against other wealthy democracies. What's particularly painful for people is that there's less equality of opportunity here than there was 40 years ago. I do think we need to do something about this, though it's not entirely clear what.
- Nomentatus 9y ago
  Priority one: Federalize educational funding so that primary schools are all decently funded. Other countries do this as a matter of course. Obama didn't lift a finger, so far as I know, to get equal dollars to black and predominantly black classrooms in poor districts.

by 0xbear 9y ago

banned1 9y ago

There is no point in trying to convince the masses of liberally-inspired, rich privileged people who have never had the courage to face and understand the arguments of the other side, or the masses of liberally-inspired poor people who rather than work to improve themselves see themselves as victims and see the others as the source of the solution to their problems. Here is an interesting point: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-problem-with-social-justice-warriors.html?m=1 http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-problem-w...

0xbear 9y ago
Ironically, the lack of ability to blame someone else for one's misfortune was the only good thing about USSR style socialism. When everyone is poor, you can't blame the rich for anything.

ScottBurson 9y ago

> What's bad is inequality in opportunity Agreed. > and there's less of that here than in most other countries. I've seen evidence that the US is actually not doing that well on this scale, particularly measured against other wealthy democracies. What's particularly painful for people is that there's less equality of opportunity here than there was 40 years ago. I do think we need to do something about this, though it's not entirely clear what.

Nomentatus 9y ago
Priority one: Federalize educational funding so that primary schools are all decently funded. Other countries do this as a matter of course. Obama didn't lift a finger, so far as I know, to get equal dollars to black and predominantly black classrooms in poor districts.