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What? People cheat in america constantly. Wasn't there a whole ton of fraud recently when it came to unemployment and the small business loans? People cheated f

• varelse 5y ago
  Yes, people cheat* because they are selfish, and any economic system has to take that into account which is where communism and libertarianism fall apart. But I thought we were talking about how if we have to wear stillsuits in the future, no one will be able to afford stillsuits except the rich despite the historical evidence 100% to the contrary. The rich will get them first though, designer stillsuits even, deal with it. Can't have everything. *But if you had any idea how many weird tricks the $100M+ class employs to avoid paying taxes, 100% legally ATM because our 2500+ page WTF tax code, you'd probably want to storm the Capitol again (or maybe not because you might have convinced yourself those weird tricks might come in handy some even though they probably won't).
• throwawayboise 5y ago
  When the government gives away money or makes loans with zero effort to qualify the recipients/borrowers, yes there will be cheating. That's not capitalism though.
  • netizen-936824 5y ago
    My point was that capitalism has produced people and behaviors which do the cheating
    • varelse 5y ago
      Who would just cheat differently under any other system because cheaters gonna cheat. And that's why we still can't have nice things.