2020-02-25 at 3:51 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
The value of all the wealth currently held by Americans is around $98 trillion. That means anything and everything of value currently under private ownership. That means your prized collection of what ever you prize, your cars, your house, your clothing...everything. Bernie wants to spend it all in ten years so everyone can have free everything. How do you dems like your front runner now?
2020-02-25 at 3:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
That means your prized collection of what ever you prize
fuckin lolz
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2020-02-25 at 4:01 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
Before you answer that what are your thoughts on the Manhattan Institute?
2020-02-25 at 4:01 PM UTC
Speedy Parker
Black Hole
[my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
I'll give you a few hours to google that and read up.
2020-02-25 at 4:02 PM UTC
Larry doesn’t have any wealth so he doesn’t care
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2020-02-25 at 4:28 PM UTC
itybit
African Astronaut
[daze my amino pe-tsai]
Even though I'm independent I typically lean moderate left, I'm not happy about Bernie being the front runner namely because of his medicare for all plan. I currently have fantastic insurance which I don't want messed with.
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2020-02-25 at 4:35 PM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Originally posted by Speedy Parker
He doesn't understand that wealth is a representation of human labor.
If you made $5,000 every single day, and worked every single day for 500 years, you would still not have as much money as Jeff Bezos - you wouldn't even have 1 billion.
Jeff Bezos must work a lot harder than you.
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2020-02-25 at 4:50 PM UTC
Yeah most of the people voting for Bernie are uneducated 18-29 year olds who just like the idea of free shit. Fuckin morons
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2020-02-25 at 5:02 PM UTC
The funny thing is I’m also in that demographic and would also like to have free shit, but I’m just not stupid enough to believe that’s sustainable.
I think eventually society will evolve to where technology basically automates everything and we’ll need almost no workers. Even jobs most people believe today can never be automated like heathcare, or education, will probably be replaced with artificial intelligence. Then yeah people can get free stuff.
But this likely wouldn’t happen for hundreds of years, if at all. We are not there yet
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2020-02-25 at 5:06 PM UTC
The bottom line is wealth = labor. SOMEONE worked for that money, those that did just don’t receive wealth commensurate with how much labor they put in. Someone else gets the rest
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2020-02-25 at 5:08 PM UTC
-SpectraL
coward
[the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
Socialism is always a big "success", until they run out of other people's money.
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2020-02-25 at 5:08 PM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I see, you mistakenly thought I was serious with my comment about how Jeff Bezos must work a lot harder than others.
