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  • I don’t mind people bringing valid criticisms to capitalism, it has a lot of problems, but it bugs me that, instead of giving even semi realistic ideas, they come with “communism is flawless!” or “the anarchists way is perfect, nothing could go wrong!”

    When you then point out that all communist examples in practice resulted in terrorized citizens, famines and what not, you only get “no true Scotsman!” arguments.

    I do agree as well with you that current political rules (well mostly in the US) are shit. Politicians should never need to fund raise at all and should be chosen for their merits, not their skills in “saying something populist in 5 words or less”


  • capitalism is not a system that allows wealth to be distributed from the rich to the poor

    That’s like saying that a car does not allow food to be digested.

    Capitalism can and should be used as a driver for economic wealth whilst being controlled and capped by law.

    You are poor? You pay no taxes. Anybody else pays in brackets and when your net worth reaches 10 million? Anything above it gets taxed 100%. Same for companies, limit them to 500-1000 employees maximum, net worths maximum 100 million or a billion or something like that.

    This makes it that nobody gets too rich, nobody gets too powerful and the government gets a huge amount of tax wealth which it can use for a giant social system that gives free healthcare, education, housing, you name it. You could then egen umdo universal income and it requires no communism, no forcing people, no taking away of rights.



  • Hey wut? I’m on this post now? Would you look at that.

    And yeah, I’ve been banned on star trek subs many times now, people apparently don’t agree with me that nu-trek ( basically all star trek after ST:ENT) has been… Shall we say, not star trek.

    Granted, I’ve heard good things about prodigy, and SNW but I’ve heard “great” things about discovery for years and oh my God it is so bad, and no, discovery had nothing to do with what star trek was about. I’ve seen only 1,5 seasons of disco and I tossed it away

    To my regret I went and watched Picard, all three godawful seasons, and it literally ruined TNG for me. I would watch TNG at least once a week since it came out, I always watched TNG until ST: Picard. It was so bad that it ruined TNG completely for me until (coincidentally) yesterday night when I watched TBOBW again and God it was good.

    But with all the disappointments I gaf with new star trek, i just stopped watching all the new stuff. I’m sorry, I can’t believe people anymore when they tell me “but this time, this time seriously, it’s exactly like TNG man!!” because it’s always awful vapid pew pew pew CGI fest drek that glorifies violence or being and asshole.

    I also got banned a bunch of times I think for promoting “The orville” which IMHO is the true spiritual successor to TNG. Seriously, give it a chance. It disappeared way before it’s time for a variety of reasons (fucking COVID amongst them) and the third and last season was disappointing, but the first two seasons are amazing and even haa its own TBOBW episodes. I can’t recommend the Orville enough, try it!












  • I’m sorry but this is a nonsense over thee top argument. This is the same as saying “do you support the rampant murdering of your opponents, and if you don’t, why do you support anarchy?”

    Everybody can make dumb statements like that.

    Every system, be it communism, capitalism, anarchy or other can and will be abused. There will always be those trying to become a dictator type asshole, see Stalin, for example. The only way for any system to work well is to put laws in place to limit what cheaters can do. For capitalism that would be tax the shit out of he rich, anything over 10M in personal wealth should be taxed at 100%. There is no right for anyone to be extremely rich.

    Capitalism has good parts and whether you like it or not, it’s by extremely the most successful to move humanity forward . I have zero problems with a capitalist system that would work like this. Limit company sizes to 500 employees and a billion dollars max in value. Again, tax anything over thst at 100%.

    This will get you loads of smaller companies that will have to compete for employees, it’ll be easier to force them to obey the law.

    This will get you a shit load of money in a government that can then use that for a socialist system that pays for free healthcare, free education, free housing, free great public transportation, etc.