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Old 06-17-2023, 08:32 PM
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Please see: all the people criticizing elon musk for being "the richest man in the world", as if he doesn't deserve to be. How many profitable electric cars and reusable rockets have you invented?
What about people that don't deserve to be? I was born rich, I never did anything to earn it, and I'll benefit from it the rest of my life. Not close Elon Musk rich but enough that my entire life was easy. He was born far richer and he had all the right ladders to get him into the rooms he needed to be in to leverage his talent for sniffing out nickels.

Very rich people wield immense power, and Elon Musk is a piece of shit, as are most very very rich people. That's why he doesn't 'deserve' it, because the net effect of someone being able to accumulate that much wealth and power is negative across society. In the presence of two parties that continually sell out the country to moneyed interests, beyond a certain point, the power that level of wealth brings is immoral. Why do you think both Republicans and Democrats have the same frustrating feeling of not having a say in anything? Our institutions are highly dysfunctional. They need to be fixed. In the meantime, once someone hits $1 billion, give them a plaque that says they win capitalism, and tax the fuck out of anything over that. That goes for both George Soros and Rupert Murdoch. Fuck them both it's too much power.
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Old 06-17-2023, 09:05 PM
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What about people that don't deserve to be? I was born rich, I never did anything to earn it, and I'll benefit from it the rest of my life. Not close Elon Musk rich but enough that my entire life was easy. He was born far richer and he had all the right ladders to get him into the rooms he needed to be in to leverage his talent for sniffing out nickels.

Very rich people wield immense power, and Elon Musk is a piece of shit, as are most very very rich people. That's why he doesn't 'deserve' it, because the net effect of someone being able to accumulate that much wealth and power is negative across society. In the presence of two parties that continually sell out the country to moneyed interests, beyond a certain point, the power that level of wealth brings is immoral. Why do you think both Republicans and Democrats have the same frustrating feeling of not having a say in anything? Our institutions are highly dysfunctional. They need to be fixed. In the meantime, once someone hits $1 billion, give them a plaque that says they win capitalism, and tax the fuck out of anything over that. That goes for both George Soros and Rupert Murdoch. Fuck them both it's too much power.
Agree on almost everything, especially the top much power. But speaking of immoral, I think stealing their money is just an immoral of a solution. Needs to be better ones
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Old 06-17-2023, 09:19 PM
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Naw the $14 an hr McDonald's employees and Private DeSantis Carls Jr Taco Bell get to bail this cuntree out once the boomer default on their Chinaloans used to prop up medicaid and Medicare to inflate prices in a fixed and regulated (not capitalism) market that gives the administrative executives free month long vacations (4 full weeks) to resorts full of Liliths victims.

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Old 06-19-2023, 04:49 PM
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Communism is what Commie Ron DuhMantits is doing in FLoriduh. He is trying to take over public businesses and have the government run them.
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Another example of the pareto distribution.

Imagine wanting a command economy and its corresponding authoritarian government.
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Old 06-19-2023, 06:12 PM
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You don't need to want anything, that's what we already have
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Old 06-20-2023, 12:38 AM
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I want euthanasia and sterilization to be legal and funded by the state.
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Old 06-21-2023, 04:03 PM
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Right to die will be abused. It would not diminish the evil in the world.

It would bring peace to people and diminish the bloodshed and number of traumatic "incidents". People do really dumb shit when they are upset, helpless or in pain.

I don't expect to go to heaven tho.

Pray the lord take my soul to utterly destroy and obliterate.
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Right to die will be abused. It would not diminish the evil in the world.

It would bring peace to people and diminish the bloodshed and number of traumatic "incidents". People do really dumb shit when they are upset, helpless or in pain.

I don't expect to go to heaven tho.

Pray the lord take my soul to utterly destroy and obliterate.
I mean euthanasia already exists, all someone has to do is look up the best methods and overpower the survival instinct. I guess a 3rd party would be for those who can’t?

I imagine taking a hot dose of fentanyl or putting one’s head in a helium balloon (or w/e the helium poisoning one is where you just fall asleep) are probably the go to’s. A gun is super messy and someone could F that up and survive

Note: I still don’t condone self-deleting tho, unless already terminal with shit quality of life
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