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Capitalism has not gone off the rail. It is just the concept that has worked better than almost every other thing known to humanity. This inequality business i
by tn13 12y ago
Capitalism has not gone off the rail. It is just the concept that has worked better than almost every other thing known to humanity.
This inequality business is a new modern day scam just like communism of last century. Some anointed people want power for themselves and want to still money from people like us who are working hard in the name of poor people nothing else.
When government creates incentives where it steals money from hardworking people like us and gives it to irresponsible people like teenage mothers in the name of "compassion", we are creating incentives for many people to remain poor. This is a perpetual poverty into which we have let the government condemn them. That is the problem.
Capitalism is a hope.
- eropple 12y agoThe need to see an untermenschen to rail against always puzzles me; these tirades about "stealing from us" are just a good way to give one's eye-rolling some exercise. It's like you think, with your labor, you're not poor, too--while some folks (hi) recognize that a couple years of illness are enough to destroy a laborer's career. Even a tech worker. If you don't own capital to sustain your lifestyle, you're almost certainly part of the poor you want to spit on. Nobody has serious designs on your slightly bigger slice of the scraps that the middle and lower classes have, and I have this sneaking feeling that you know that. But Steinbeck predicted you most of a hundred years ago.
- tn13 12y agoYes. Something might destroy all I have earned but that is fine. I am individually responsible for that and I dont think someone else owes me anything.
- eropple 12y agoThe idea that one is individually responsible for getting cancer at the age of twenty-five is at best hilarious and at worst monstrous.