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Old 12-15-2020, 01:50 AM
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Or we could do the marxism thing. You know, get a job you like. Get paid a wage thats fair. Get treated as an equal in society.. SO GROSSS MARXISM!!!
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Old 12-15-2020, 01:54 AM
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Or we could do the marxism thing. You know, get a job you like. Get paid a wage thats fair. Get treated as an equal in society.. SO GROSSS MARXISM!!!
All of those things are already eminently possible for all citizens of the US. Poor african immigrants come to this country and become incredibly wealthy year after year. Please see statistics regarding immigrants from ghana and somalia.

Your goal will never be achieved though because your criteria are so nebulous.

"We could do the thing where everything is good for everybody". That will never be the case, that is called utopia and it is not attainable; it's a fantasy. The soviet union tried it, china tried it, venezuela tried it, cuba tried it and the list goes on and on. There's a reason the world's poor are scrambling to come to the US though, because it's the closest we've ever gotten to good conditions for the largest number of people.
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Old 12-15-2020, 01:54 AM
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It doesnt. It works, but it works best for those with money.

Did you know you're not even ALLOWED to be an accredited investor if you dont make 200k a year. Because too many poor people owning stock and businesses can crash the economy for the rich people... They are the only ones privileged to crash the economy and make big investments. They are allowed to bet the farm. You're not.
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Old 12-15-2020, 02:07 AM
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It doesnt. It works, but it works best for those with money.

Did you know you're not even ALLOWED to be an accredited investor if you dont make 200k a year. Because too many poor people owning stock and businesses can crash the economy for the rich people... They are the only ones privileged to crash the economy and make big investments. They are allowed to bet the farm. You're not.
To be fair, this is a mischaracterization of the AI standard and the rationale behind it. First, you don’t need to be an AI to buy many public stocks.

The AI standard applies to private funds and private stocks. And the reason it exists is that the SEC wants to ensure people with less money are more protected so that they don’t go out and buy into higher risk situations. The idea is that someone below the AI threshold is 1. Less financially able to bear the risk of the loss of their investment and 2. Potentially less sophisticated from a financial knowledge standpoint and therefore might not be able to fully analyze the investment and it’s risks. The AI standard isn’t some scheme by the rich to keep themselves as the only people able to buy private stocks and funds...trust me; as an example, the rich want as many people as possible to be able to buy shares in their hedge funds haha
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Old 12-15-2020, 02:17 AM
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Remember movies about the black life in the hood the older characters were like, "my generation didn't bring guns, we used our hands"

But now all the whites in good neighborhoods this generation are like, "if you dont bring guns you dont deserve hands"
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Old 12-15-2020, 02:29 AM
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Cause the people who crashed the economy every other time were so smart and protected america and themselves from ruin, right? People with more money are allowed to be less protected, invest more, and get a bigger return. Always keeping them ahead of those making less. In the end, who always wins?
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Old 12-15-2020, 02:33 AM
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Once you see how stupid the human race is and how pointless all of their concerns are and have always been, you realize that the titans of the world are the biggest losers thinking that it all mattered, and the folks that stayed at home and enjoyed their favorite video game were the real winners.

Food for thought.
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Old 12-15-2020, 02:57 AM
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Bank with infinite liquidity which cannot fail = aristocracy
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Old 12-15-2020, 04:16 AM
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That’s because every time communists get in power, they tend to kill 10s of millions of people who oppose their political ideals.

Thank God we still have the right to bear arms. Otherwise hundreds of milllions of Americans would be starved/starving to death in gulags.
I’m not defending communists. That said, people die as a result of capitalism too and always have done. Whether protecting American commercial interests in the 2000s or raiding the grain silos to ensure shareholders don’t lose out during a manmade famine in India in the age of sail. Sadly gulags were a problem that predated communism and massed punitive incarceration isn’t exactly a foreign problem to the US.

Communism is effective at quickly industrialising and raising living standards in a nation, but America is far beyond that being useful. People enjoy consumerism, they just want to ensure their dignity and basic needs are protected. It’s not so different to why gun ownership is popular.
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Old 12-15-2020, 07:21 AM
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let me get this straight:

A liberal goes to a riot and he is a terrorist.

A conservative goes to a riot, brings a rifle, kills someone, and he was just a guy?

You're calling the same exact thing rittenhouse is, a terrorist, just because they didn't bring a gun.

lol "Ok" mr non-violent.
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