And like I’ve been saying. What ethical consumption is there in our system?
Or one could try and change what they thought was wrong.
How is keeping more of the profit/income you earn “free shit”?
Can’t wait for this explanation.
But you don’t do that. You just bitch.
How is NOT paying taxes but using the things taxes pay for not free shit?
And how is lobbying(bribing) the government to rig the system in your favor not free shit? Now you can avoid those externalities and let the public pick up the tab, while you just get away with it and privatize your profits while socializing the costs. Because you’ve had the laws written in your favor.
Keep living in your theoretical world.
How do you know what I do? You don’t even keep yourself informed. You just chug the mainstream propaganda and think you know what is up. Same old, same old.
Everyone pays taxes in some form.
That isn’t really “free shit”, but it’s irrelevant to what I asked. I’m against lobbying, generally.
What does this even mean? Your entire point of view is predicated on an imaginary world you wish existed and mine is predicated on the world as it is.
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You have stated enough to infer everything I need to
Do you run for office? What charities do you donate to?
You also don’t provide a business or service you think would be beneficial to your fellow man (something you claim to be for). Instead you sit behind your computer and attempt to maximize your profit on numerous daily bets - how very capitalist of you. You could start a non profit that champions the very things you champion (maybe a non profit free health clinic or something) but you don’t do that because that would be putting money where loud mouth is. You do know that employees of non-profits do make livable salaries right?
You take the easy route every chance you get and blame others for lack of success.
You think you are enlightened because you read a different opinion and hung onto it like it keeps your sad little heart beating. You’re a piece of shit the way you come at people on here insulting many of us and taking a “holier than thou” approach because you believe what you think to be the objective truth.
Yes but some pay very little or even none.
Having the laws written in your favor to help avoid fines and what not is free shit.
Really? So corporations don’t privatize the profits and socialize the costs? In your world, no. OMG, you are so out of touch.
What externalities am I involved in?
Is this the only way to get involved. I give to organizations I believe are worthwhile. And you?
But a lot of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. But that is okay with you because that is capitalism.
I advocate for a single-payer healthcare system and that the pharma companies ought to be immediately dissolved. People can recycle but do the actions of individuals bring about solutions? Where is the root cause of the problem. On the corporate side of things. That is where you go to correct the problems. But that may mean that the bottom line is affected. And potentially the industry is shut down. If that is what the result is then they shouldn’t have been in the business in the first place.
When the people you’ve been listening to are often proven wrong and the people I listen to are often proved right, then what conclusion would you come to? But yet you arrogantly think you are right because the mainstream says so. It doesn’t matter if they are wrong all the time or for how long(economists talking about a bankrupt U.S.for decades), it doesn’t matter to you because the mainstream still says so. So instead of dissecting the evidence you just march along. Indoctrinated by decades of mainstream propaganda is what most on here are a victim of. But they can’t even digest it because it’s too big of a blow to their ego and it’s too painful.
This isn’t reality. It’s what you believe to be reality. You favorites are routinely criticized and have holes poked in their theories by many peer reviewed journal articles.
Yeah, I am the arrogant one in this thread…your detachment from reality is truly astounding
This is a very short time span in the life of a country. The fact it hasn’t yet come true does not preclude it from happening. Another concept you can’t grasp.
The problem with you dissecting “evidence” is that you don’t know how to actually do it as evidenced by the statistics based articles and charts you have posted above.
No, then what is it?
Huh? I am missing what you are questioning here.
But a very long time to consistently be wrong.
You have to say this to keep your argument on life support. Someday, someday!
Examples not accusations.
Again examples not accusations.
Bro, paying your online porn subscription costs with your allowance money is NOT giving.
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I am not going back to rehash what I already explained in this thread about how easy it is to make statistics say whatever the hell one wants them too.
First few hits on google scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=modern+monetary+theory+critique&oq=modern+monetary+t#d=gs_qabs&t=1675636166128&u=%23p%3DJwkitK82YnUJ
Abstract here sums it up:
And a whle book
Hilarious.
Lobbying to try stop government intervention in your business is not “free shit”, but whatever I don’t really care and it’s not like you will understand this anyway.
What specifically are you referring to.
One of us posts about politics all day long from their senior center the other analyzes financial statements, but sure, I’m the out of touch one.
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Actually, if we are living, we are all living in the actual world.
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Missed this earlier a- yeah let’s get rid of the people that create life saving drugs. Not much of what they do is worthy of being praised but you cannot ignore that fact.
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