I've slowly come around to believing in "maximum wealth"

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:yeshrug: This is a discussion with you, honestly, that will go nowhere. You're entrenched in your Rothbard esq hyper-ilbertarian views that society must forever be stratified under the yolk of capital as that's the only system that makes sense to you. There's no point in either of us wasting each others time on this particular endeavor. our views on this are simply too opposed for this to end up doing anything meaningful. :handshake:
 

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I'm trying to get this money and one day be a billionaire myself. Since I was 18, every year I've made more money than the last and now that I'm repping #DEEPSIX (Deep six figures gang) :gucci:you brehs wanna change all the rules and tax the hell out of the rich ........









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Seriously. I don’t know how anyone can muster up the energy to defend capitalism at this point
What alternative are you suggesting?

Also:

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By many measures, a revolution in the human condition- is sweeping the world. Most people today are better fed, clothed, and housed than their predecessors two centuries ago. They are healthier, live longer, and are better educated. Women's lives are less centered on reproduction and political democracy has gained a foothold. Although western Europe and its offshoots have been t.he leaders of this advance, most of the less developed countries have joined in during the 20th century, with the newly emerging nations of sub-Saharan Africa the latest to participate. Although the picture is not one of universal progress, it is the greatest advance in the condition of the world's population ever achieved in such a brief span of time.

http://faculty.georgetown.edu/mh5/class/econ102/readings/Standard of Living 1800.pdf


Just because there's bad doesn't mean its all bad. Its actually mostly good.
 
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What alternative are you suggesting?

Also:

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http://faculty.georgetown.edu/mh5/class/econ102/readings/Standard of Living 1800.pdf


Just because there's bad doesn't mean its all bad. Its actually mostly good.
It's worth pointing out that "Our World in Data" is produced by a single guy with a pretty strong agenda, and that graphs like that come with some assumptions and generalizations that I believe are invalid.

The "extreme poverty" stats are distorted because they're almost always based entirely on money flow. That means that in large part they're just measuring the rural-to-urban transition, not people's actual wealth and well-being.

They'll have a family living on a farm in the countryside as living in "extreme poverty" because they have less than $1 cash flow a day, even though they own their land, produce their own food, and generally have access to healthy air, water, etc.

Now have that same family lose their land to agribusiness and get forced to move into an urban slum. They live in a 8 foot by 8 foot room that they don't even own, they work far longer hours under far more stress, their air quality is shyt, their water is unclean, for food they're now mostly eating processed corporate crap. But since they're living on wages their daily income is $3/day so they're marked as "not extreme poverty" even though quality of life has cratered.

We keep monetizing tons of things that everyone used to take for granted, but the mere monetization of life doesn't mean an improvement in life.
 

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:hhh:Disgusting ass Bernie/Warren/AOC Stans in here.

America shouldn’t be in the business of telling anyone how successful they should be.

Yes, tax the wealthy appropriately, but capping how much money and success they should strive to achieve is ridiculous.
go ahead and vote for Trump. That's what you are dying to do. We all see through you.
 

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go ahead and vote for Trump. That's what you are dying to do. We all see through you.

My first and only choice is Joe Biden(As I have stated all along, and i will never pull the lever for Trump), but if any democratic nominee starts talking this type of nonsense, I rather republicans keep control of the White House.

You far left liberals disgust me and I’m not ashamed to admit that.
 

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My first and only choice is Joe Biden(As I have stated all along, and i will never pull the lever for Trump), but if any democratic nominee starts talking this type of nonsense, I rather republicans keep control of the White House.

You far left liberals disgust me and I’m not ashamed to admit that.
Just out of curiousity, why is he "the only option"
 

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