So this is what you say for fear of the answer.
Funny when your ilk canât answer a question.
Funny, when the truth hurts. Propaganda has got you right where they want you, without you recognizing it.
So I see you could care less about the middle class in America. Where have the majority of gains gone?
And the wealth gap continues to grow. Capitalism is self-destructing. But yeah, keep believing in it.
Funnier when you couldnât answer 5 and used an unrelated question to dodge them.
Answer or conceed the previous debates and I will gladly go into a new one. Before doing one of the former, continued insistance of my inability to answer the question would just show many lies you are willing to tell.
This IS what you say for fear of the answer.
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Did you really spend Independence Day copying and pasting your bullshit on a thread that means absolutely nothing?
Youâre fucking pathetic. Go outside, it was beautiful today.
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Jesus youâre a dense fuck.
Oh I didnât realize what day it is. Happy Independance Day to my colonizer friends!
May Capitalism finally eat itself and, come on, Will Smith saving the world by uploading a virus from an ancient Mac into an Alien spacecraft is just silly.
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Nope. Less people in extreme poverty. More literate people. Improved infant survival. Etcetera, etcetera, etceteraâŠ
All the while free economies and advanced capital markets were gaining in popularity.
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Well, youâre responding to a guy who thinks a âsystemâ is self-destructive - a system is only as good as those who operate in it. Any system is only as good as those who operate in it. Even communism.
I think capitalism (free market economic systems) is the least likely to produce massive destructive behavior in that it inherently decentralizes power and puts the onus of responsibility on the individual actor. In so far as each individual becomes increasingly specialized in their economic productivity, they become increasingly reliant on other individuals to meet their needs they themselves are less efficient at meeting. To do so effectively, a level of adept cooperation must be achieved and maintained in order for others to want to do business with any other individual. Sorry for the ramble and if this is incoherent (I know itâs incomplete) then Iâll just blame my 11 day old son - heâs a light sleeper.
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Another delusional socialist.
Noticed you ignored this. Itâs cool, I wouldnât want to address my homophobia either if I was a piece of shit like you.
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What about them?
Debt to GDP:
Denmark 163%
Norway 169%
Sweden 177%
Finland 196%
Iceland 118%
You think thatâs sustainable? You probably do, but itâs not.
United States 99%
Generally homogeneous:
Denmark:
Norway
Sweden
Finland
The US is not homogeneous:
Tax burden by country:
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I would continue, but I have things to do and this is obviously a waste of my time.
âMore important, theyâre deeply regressive and, if implemented, would hurt the very same poor and middle-class voters she claims to champion.â
This one sentence pretty much sums up the vast majority of Democratic Socialist (or just plain on Socialist) policies, energy costs to wage floors to health care - when you raise barriers you restrict any kind of innovation and human desire to improve any given system or product (for lack of a better term).
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Yup, thatâs what most socialists or socialist-lite folks donât get. If you raise the minimum wage, for example, it really tickles you right in the feelz. Youâve really helped the poor! Except, someone has to pay for the increase in COGS because a lot of companies operate on margins that cannot absorb any additional costs especially those that do not accompany increases in productivity / sales. Thatâs reality a place I wish more âdemocratic socialistsâ would visit.
Now, the resident clown will say something like, âif a company canât pay a living wage then they shouldnât exists,â which is even dumber than the above.
*In other words, cost of living goes up and every one, including those closest to the minimum, pay for it. Itâs the opposite of what we want to happen (artificial price increases v. a reduction in prices through innovation or competition).
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Yep - not to mention youâve just now made that job more desirable to a larger proportion of workers effectively pricing out the lower skilled workers who need that job to improve their skills and experience. Itâs a supply and demand problem really and all sides of the issue ought to be considered.
Iâd like to be convinced the juice is worth the squeeze, but it hasnât happened yet.
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Jordan Peterson makes an interesting point thatâs relevant to this too. The military doesnât accept applicants with an IQ below 85, iirc, because there isnât a single job they can do that wouldnât be detrimental to the service. That translates, roughly, to 10% of the population having too low an IQ to do anything. Thatâs 32 million people in the US. Thatâs about 8 million more people than the entire population of the amazing Scandinavian countries combined. Wtf are we supposed to do with these people? And, as jobs become more and more complex, itâs just going to get worse.
Makes you thinkâŠ
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Can you imagine one of these guys pulling the pin from a grenade for the first time in Basic Training?
Zep can lead them to the Promised Land.
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But but but, itâs the USâ fault! We only buy 35% of their exports double their next largest export recipient.
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