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Sure you will but you will never get it though. Because there will be a class of people who decide who should get that extra 3 meters and as my experience growi

by qaq 5y ago

Sure you will but you will never get it though. Because there will be a class of people who decide who should get that extra 3 meters and as my experience growing up in USSR tells me it's ain't gonna be you.

LightG 5y ago
A class of people? You mean our democratically elected officials? For all their flaws, I would rather they do something productive with "some" of the resources we're talking about here rather than putting it to use on just another bottle of Dom Perignon. Sure, even that generates economic activity, but there are much better economically multiplying activities that can be invested in.
- qaq 5y ago
  Well at the point of time when policies are that to the left hard to imagine you will still have elected officials but who knows
  - GlennS 5y ago
    > that to the left hard He's talking about stopping funding for the British Monarchy, not nationalising the means of production. It's not a majority position, but it's hardly hard left.
  - burnished 5y ago
    Fucking lefties with their big government, wanting to.. stop paying the monarchy for breathing.
- robertlagrant 5y ago
  Officials are not democratically elected.
  - LightG 5y ago
    Mine is. Sorry if you're living in North Korea. I'm rooting for your revolution.
    - robertlagrant 5y ago
      You vote for all the officials that write your legislation and bylaws, and administrate them? In my country we just vote for the people who take the credit/blame for the work a relatively static administrative system does.
refurb 5y ago
Yup. All these arguments about wealth distribution are typically “solved” by just shifting that wealth to another select group. Of course entirely due to meritocracy - being an expert in Leninism require a certain lifestyle you understand. I have no argument against policies which support those at the bottom end. But to pretend that an equitable outcome is possible in the long term ignore thousands of years of human experience.

by qaq 5y ago

LightG 5y ago

A class of people? You mean our democratically elected officials? For all their flaws, I would rather they do something productive with "some" of the resources we're talking about here rather than putting it to use on just another bottle of Dom Perignon. Sure, even that generates economic activity, but there are much better economically multiplying activities that can be invested in.

qaq 5y ago
Well at the point of time when policies are that to the left hard to imagine you will still have elected officials but who knows
- GlennS 5y ago
  > that to the left hard He's talking about stopping funding for the British Monarchy, not nationalising the means of production. It's not a majority position, but it's hardly hard left.
- burnished 5y ago
  Fucking lefties with their big government, wanting to.. stop paying the monarchy for breathing.
robertlagrant 5y ago
Officials are not democratically elected.
- LightG 5y ago
  Mine is. Sorry if you're living in North Korea. I'm rooting for your revolution.
  - robertlagrant 5y ago
    You vote for all the officials that write your legislation and bylaws, and administrate them? In my country we just vote for the people who take the credit/blame for the work a relatively static administrative system does.

refurb 5y ago

Yup. All these arguments about wealth distribution are typically “solved” by just shifting that wealth to another select group. Of course entirely due to meritocracy - being an expert in Leninism require a certain lifestyle you understand. I have no argument against policies which support those at the bottom end. But to pretend that an equitable outcome is possible in the long term ignore thousands of years of human experience.