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What an odd world view. Of course the priviliged have greater social obligations, because they are greater benefactors of life. We're all equal under the law bu
by phist_mcgee 3mo ago
What an odd world view. Of course the priviliged have greater social obligations, because they are greater benefactors of life. We're all equal under the law but that doesn't mean that those with greater means shouldn't have greater impacts on society.
Meritocracy is often a buzzword of the elite to avoid paying their fair share.
- yamillove 3mo ago[flagged]
- phist_mcgee 3mo ago>America is the Greatest Country on Earth Yeah ok mate. Have a good one.
- yamillove 3mo agoThanks. If you think some other country is, then tell us.
- Natfan 3mo agocitation needed on that last claim. do you have universal healthcare free at point of service? do you have a healthy supply of public housing? do you let children starve, through no fault of their own but the circumstances of their birth? do you engage is ears of choice and murder 100+ innocent children in a primary school on the first day of the conflict? the answer to some of these questions should be yes, and others should be no, if you're going to make the claim that the United States of America is the "Greatest Country on Earth, Ever".
- yamillove 3mo agoThe greatest country on earth ever is that which most people of the world, if given a free plane ticket and permission to live in, would go to. I don’t know how you find it controversial. It’s just a fact.
- BenjiWiebe 3mo agoMaybe just the best marketed?
- yamillove 3mo agoYou need the goods. You cannot market Somalia for example.
- Natfan 3mo agoalso the rich absolutely _do_ owe society at large something: taxes. a thing which, as you get richer, it apparently becomes optional due to financial engineering
- yamillove 3mo agoThere is a tax book. If you don’t take advantage of every possible option allowed by the thick book, then you are just dumb. But if you are feeling more patriotic than you usually feel, may I remind you Uncle Sam accepts gifts at: https://fiscal.treasury.gov/financing/gifts-to-government https://fiscal.treasury.gov/financing/gifts-to-government
- Natfan 2mo agounclear as to how i, a non-US citizen, would give the US government taxes. also unclear as to why i would want to help fund a genocide, but that's just me.
- rbanffy 3mo ago> That’s why America is the Greatest Country on Earth, ever You forgot the sarcasm tag.
- yamillove 3mo agoWell, it’s the country that most people who leave their country risk their lives to move to. So at least most immigrants on earth agree with me.
- rbanffy 3mo agoIf I were to nitpick, I would say that they try to move to a idealised version of the US that never quite existed. This romanticised version has been pervasively depicted in mass consumption media for many decades. More meaningful perhaps would be to count the immigrants from developed countries and immigrants that earn above the median in their respective countries and/or go to the US and earn above the American median. There are a lot of desperate people in the world right now who’ll take extreme action to escape their immediate predicaments, such as risking a Mediterranean crossing from Northern Africa to Europe.
- yamillove 3mo ago[dead]
- sevenseacat 3mo ago> That’s why America is the Greatest Country on Earth, ever. hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahhaahah
- yamillove 3mo agoWell, it’s definitely not Australia
- sevenseacat 3mo agoAnd I'm not conceited enough to claim that it is