To be fair to socialism...starving might indeed motivate someone to be innovative.
I'm sure they have come up with all sorts of fascinating ways to cook rabbits.
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Draconian patent/copyright laws stifle innovation more then anything.
You can have Disney protect it's profit margin, or free up Mickey for new and innovative uses of the ip, but you can't have protectionism and innovation.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I wish we could rename socialism and capitalism so everyone would forget all their preconceived biases about these systems. The truth of the matter is that these systems totally work in conjunction with each other, covering the other's blind spots. We need to look at them as a sets of tools, with each one having a specific situation where it works best.
Hearing otherwise reasonable people, both on KMC and in real life, lose their minds reciting this ridiculous idea that "there can only be one!" feels bad man.
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In all seriousness, I understand how annoying it is when you spend the time to research and write a post, and no one reads it and/or calls its plagiarism.
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Bingo. I love it when people think they have some sort of "gotcha" by pointing out we have some social programs here. And then act like it's silly to be concerned over people who want shit like not just healthcare, but universal basic income, free college, and guaranteed federal jobs. They also seem to want anyone from Mexico who wants to come here to be able to do so.
People can say not all of those things I just named are necessarily socialist policies, but when you have someone who is saying she is a democratic socialist pushing shit like that...it's silly to call people worried "silly".
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Definitely. People aren't acknowledging it though.
Right, but that isn't what happened here. What happened here is multiple posters making caricatures of and mocking socialism, despite contrary statistics no less.
And in the real world, let's be serious here. Most naysayers are reacting to the term "socialism" alone. They aren't simply voicing concerns over a specific policy. They are legit afraid of the word.
That's why I want to do a full blown, Jean Grey mindwipe. Then, hopefully, we can just discuss this stuff without the baggage, or at least with much less of the baggage.
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Any system that relies on the patronage of an elite class, or on the intelligence of the mob, is doomed to be a bad system.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
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