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2017-11-04 00:20:01 UTC

Which isn't inherently gibs.

2017-11-04 00:20:01 UTC

It is

2017-11-04 00:20:24 UTC

Of course the social safety nets in our country have been exploited and abused. This is intentional by the system

2017-11-04 00:20:32 UTC

But that doesn't mean they are inherently flawed

2017-11-04 00:20:37 UTC

Welfare itself isn't a dirty word

2017-11-04 00:20:48 UTC

Under capitalism, the only way to get rich is by giving people products and services they want. Under socialism, you can be an asshole and the government will still subsidize you

2017-11-04 00:20:54 UTC

Thats false

2017-11-04 00:21:08 UTC

You can be a complete leech in capitalism and become rich

2017-11-04 00:21:15 UTC

How?

2017-11-04 00:21:34 UTC

What do the infinite number of traders, bankers, and brokers really do for our people?

2017-11-04 00:21:42 UTC

National Socialism also combines with cultural reforms to promote the value of hard work and contributing to society

2017-11-04 00:21:52 UTC

Thats why those two are so important together

2017-11-04 00:22:15 UTC

Of course socialism without the National promotes leeches because they don't care who they are stealing from

2017-11-04 00:22:19 UTC

Well, I have a 1.3m loan from a bank. I used it to buy a 20 unit apartment complex. I'm providing housing for 20 people, they voluntarily give me money each month, I voluntarily pay the bank interest, and I still make a profit. Everyone wins

2017-11-04 00:22:41 UTC

But that's not what I asked. I didn't ask what a landlord did

2017-11-04 00:22:55 UTC

We wouldn't have so many banks and they wouldn't be nearly this large, if not for the federal reserve, which was created by the government

2017-11-04 00:22:58 UTC

Are you charging a fair price, or exploiting them?

2017-11-04 00:23:07 UTC

Usury needs to be banned

2017-11-04 00:23:18 UTC

A fair price is whatever someone is willing to pay

2017-11-04 00:23:25 UTC

No

2017-11-04 00:23:25 UTC

The Church considered Usury to be sinful for centuries. It's making money from nothing

2017-11-04 00:23:45 UTC

And they let Jews become Bankers and here we are. Banning usury was a mistake. But that's another issue

2017-11-04 00:23:59 UTC

Desperate people are willing to pay more, that doesn't mean it's right to charge someone extra when they're vulnerable and can't say no

2017-11-04 00:24:03 UTC

They let the Jews exist in their societies as an internal clique. Thats the mistake. Not banning usury lol

2017-11-04 00:24:43 UTC

What do you mean by desperate? If the rent is too high, they can move to a less nice apartment

2017-11-04 00:25:01 UTC

Banning usury would have worked if they banned it for everyone, not just Christians

2017-11-04 00:25:12 UTC

Ok. So now you and the other slum lords get together. And decide this is the minimum price you will charge

2017-11-04 00:25:22 UTC

Moving isn't always feasible

2017-11-04 00:25:54 UTC

Also socialism isn't communism. You are allowed property, the right to own your own business, to profit, etc.

2017-11-04 00:26:02 UTC

Sometimes people have no other option

2017-11-04 00:26:09 UTC

It's just that you can't directly spread poison to your countrymen or exploit them

2017-11-04 00:26:33 UTC

I appreciate being called a slum lord. Lol.

Okay, so me and 4 other landlords decide to all raise our rents. So an entrepreneur comes along, sees a demand for affordable housing, buys/builds apartments and charges lower rent. Me and the other "greedy" landlords lose all our tenants and we're out of business

2017-11-04 00:26:54 UTC

Okay. So now you collude with the local government to block his permit to build

2017-11-04 00:27:08 UTC

These are things that have actually happened

2017-11-04 00:27:12 UTC

I agree, government shouldn't have that power

2017-11-04 00:27:15 UTC

I'm not trolling

2017-11-04 00:27:19 UTC

I know you're not

2017-11-04 00:27:33 UTC

Okay so who should decide who builds where

2017-11-04 00:27:35 UTC

If we remove form government the power to block business and grant monopolies then that problem won't arise

2017-11-04 00:28:01 UTC

Okay so you and the other local landlords present a higher bid than the entrepeneur can afford on the land to build

2017-11-04 00:28:10 UTC

If you own land, you should be able to do whatever you want with it, with the exception of any covenants you've entered into. For example, if I buy a home in an explicitly all white/Anglo neighborhood, I can't sell my home to any non whites

2017-11-04 00:28:22 UTC

All of that is voluntary and doesn't require government force

2017-11-04 00:28:42 UTC

A capitalist society promotes exploitation and will always end up where we are now.

2017-11-04 00:28:45 UTC

The problem is that without a strong central force acting for the good of the people, profit will motivate and reign supreme

2017-11-04 00:29:09 UTC

Why are third worlders imported in mass to our countries for cheap labor? to maximize profit.

2017-11-04 00:29:15 UTC

Capitalism is slow boil communism, to catch the frog unaware

2017-11-04 00:29:19 UTC

You don't make a profit without giving people something they want

2017-11-04 00:29:29 UTC

Why aren't the people of Appalachia provided the services they need? Its not profitable

2017-11-04 00:29:43 UTC

Because they're white and they provide for themselves

2017-11-04 00:29:44 UTC

The problem is that there are wants, and there are needs.

2017-11-04 00:30:03 UTC

They provide for themselves. But they can't build an entire power grid or water system my man

2017-11-04 00:30:07 UTC

But the people in Appalachia can just move at any time! Maybe to a big city center

2017-11-04 00:30:24 UTC

"a luxury once enjoyed brclmrd a necessity" internet I'd now a necessity. So is air conditioning. A cell phone, etc

2017-11-04 00:30:24 UTC

That requires capital in this system. Something these people don't have.

2017-11-04 00:30:43 UTC

Hadrian, lots of people did this to work in factories, etc

2017-11-04 00:30:52 UTC

Alot of them were forced by the way

2017-11-04 00:30:58 UTC

I was actually reading about this the other day.

2017-11-04 00:31:23 UTC

The business owners who needed labor would collude with local government and other land owners to force out farmers and the like.

2017-11-04 00:31:36 UTC

So they'd eventually move into cities for work

2017-11-04 00:31:49 UTC

The rural farmers and peasants pre industrial age were infinitely more wealthy than the factory workers

2017-11-04 00:32:14 UTC

I agree, government is evil ;)

2017-11-04 00:32:22 UTC

And now their children pay $80,000 a year to rent a broom closet

2017-11-04 00:32:45 UTC

Okay so lets remove the government from this situation

2017-11-04 00:32:58 UTC

The wealthy now hire boys with guns to forcefully move these people

2017-11-04 00:33:32 UTC

Which should be fought against. And local thugs are a lot easier to fight against than the federal government

2017-11-04 00:33:54 UTC

Without the safe guards of a central government what prevents the wealthy from monopolizing force

2017-11-04 00:34:18 UTC

Recreational McNukes

2017-11-04 00:34:19 UTC

Feudalism lacked alot of these safe guards, and as a result the peasantry were directly under the whims of the local wealthy such as nobles.

2017-11-04 00:34:46 UTC

"We need some manpower for this war. Get the fuck off your farm and come with us. Or we kill you and seize your assets"

2017-11-04 00:34:54 UTC

Without a strong central government, who will build the gas chambers?

2017-11-04 00:35:16 UTC

Jones, the wealthy already monopolize force

2017-11-04 00:35:40 UTC

If we eliminate the government (or most of its power) then that disappears. If it comes back in some other form then we should fight that, also

2017-11-04 00:35:54 UTC

I dont understand how it disappears

2017-11-04 00:36:15 UTC

Factory owners can't force government to take land from farmers

2017-11-04 00:36:26 UTC

Yes. They just do it themselves

2017-11-04 00:36:29 UTC

Slum lords can't block building permits

2017-11-04 00:36:42 UTC

Right, they just buy the land up outright

2017-11-04 00:36:55 UTC

That happens much less often , and I agree, it shouldn't happen either, but government does it far more

2017-11-04 00:37:19 UTC

Thats because we live in a neo capitalist society where our governments often adhere to the whims of the wealthy

2017-11-04 00:37:41 UTC

The greatest goal of the wealthy is to retain capital and prevent us peasants from aquiring it

2017-11-04 00:38:09 UTC

We have crony capitalism. Government interferes constantly. America was wealthier and there was far less poverty before the welfare state

2017-11-04 00:38:35 UTC

Jones, you shouldn't think of yourself as a peasant. You should look at how wealthy people acquired their money and do it yourself

2017-11-04 00:38:59 UTC

9 out of 10 millionaires in America are self made, meaning they didn't inherit it

2017-11-04 00:39:20 UTC

We had far more pure capitalism a century ago, and it was pretty bad

2017-11-04 00:39:39 UTC

The owner of the corp I currently work for, aquired his capital and started his business by splicing into the local infastructure of the existing telecom companies. An act like that today would put me away for a very long time

2017-11-04 00:40:05 UTC

So what he did was not only illegal but unethical

2017-11-04 00:40:24 UTC

A trend you see often by those with wealth in this system

2017-11-04 00:40:36 UTC

And purely capitalist systems as a whole

2017-11-04 00:40:48 UTC

We don't live in a purely capitalist audience

2017-11-04 00:40:51 UTC

System *

2017-11-04 00:41:09 UTC

I didn't say we did. I'm saying that this has happened in more pure capitalist socieities as well

2017-11-04 00:41:35 UTC

In the late 19th century, business owners often would relocate their employees to towns they built paying them in vouchers only valid in these workers towns

2017-11-04 00:42:30 UTC

Child labor, unsafe working conditions, no protections

2017-11-04 00:42:37 UTC

As opposed to what

2017-11-04 00:43:09 UTC

As opposed to these workers having some level of freedom and self determination.

2017-11-04 00:43:30 UTC

They have the freedom to work there or not to

2017-11-04 00:43:38 UTC

Or to start their own factory

2017-11-04 00:43:43 UTC

With what capital

2017-11-04 00:43:57 UTC

Capital is created

2017-11-04 00:44:24 UTC

When you're just a few paychecks away from starving, starting your own factory is not even remotely an option

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