but if all you have actually fundementally in place for your society is shallow greed, and literally 0, nothing else, thats what you get

egoism

i mean

i do

that proves you wrong instantly

***atleast*** one person does it

and if we got rid of taxes, i think people would donate more to charity

i mean

they do

bill gates doesnt get tax benifits on his 2 billion dollar donations

and even if he does, they stopped at 10,000 dollars

i know its like, not

but it manifests as such

@Larbi yea, egoism is silly

@Deleted User uh.... universal healthcare isnt charity

and on top of that

america is the most generous country

most donations per capita

by a huge margin

i mean

i like the critique, not the entire destruction of it

i understand like, questioning it and looking closely, but some abstractions exist for a good reason, like language

it would if people werent taxed

i mean

it litearlly would

but that tax money goes to things like the military and crap

imagine if that money went to people who needed it instead

or atleast to people who are working

there's overwhelming historical data that proves you otherwise too

so

uh

do you have any? do we want this to be a citation war?

america literally donates 1.5% of GDP on pure charity

second place is new zealand at 0.8%

LMAO WHAT

TELL THAT TO VENEZULA

LMAO

^^^^^^^^^^

yes

forced altruism and charity isnt real charity

its forced robinhooding

theft

no they havent

venezuela has loads of homeless people

and even more cant afford food

95% of the country is too poor to afford food on a daily basis

at all

i mean

it literally is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela

its been like

dying for years now

look at all of that food

mildly

im a mix

but like, mostly just, NAP ancap

focusing mostly on economics

^^^

that last part is the important part

since like

fundementally its worked out and proven, then its applied and expected to work, and in the vast majority of cases, it does work, but the subjective opinions of individuals and government meddling make it hard, and usually not perfectly accurate

you may have a house

but you cant put food in the fridge

since your money is worthless

loads of people are probs still homeless

i did like

long ago

idk, its hard to tell when the government refuses to let anyone but them make polls on the people

uh

who made those houses

where did they come from

what did it cost to make those houses

what could've happened instead

ok

how

with what materials

what money

what workers

^^^

with what money

how are they employed

what does psychiatry have to do with this?

the WPA is like

a world-wide psychiatric union

@Deleted User yea, so they print money

lets just

cut to the chase

the venezulan government

is running at a loss

so they print money

and spend it before it goes worthless

then it goes worthless when the worker spends it

they have done this literally for their entire history

they did it *before* the trade war

they still do it

right now

they are still in deep poverty

their currency is still inflated