Germany is lucky that they have many good companies to help their economy

but something must be off there, for example there are not many large tech companies from europe, all/most are from the USA

I’m here mostly because I’m culturally conservative. I don’t want to pay equity taxes or get put on a race offenders registry, but I’m more left on a lot of economic things. There are literally no politicians in America that represent my views entirely😂

free market economy, with a high tax haigh public welfare spend..

I’m left on economic stuff too

Thought I was alone lol

Good to see some others are out there

Socialism is lame

Liberalism and social democracy are still capitalist, and uselessly progressive

<:thinking:726878987837636698> you can't have rich people if you tax the shit out of them which results in no one being rich or any incentive too getting rich

europe has a different attitude to tech investing, our companies need to prove themselves and make money before people invest, whereas in the USA they prefer to grow, get market dominance then make the money...

you can't have wealth gap if everybody is equally poor <:thinking:726878987837636698>

People shouldn’t use socialism like a blanket term. It’s more of a spectrum of policies

It’s different in different circumstances

I’m not saying it’s good or bad

Just think people should try to understand that it’s way more grey than black and white

Most things in life are shades of grey

California became hell because of socialism

“Socialism is when the government forces me to wear a mask!”

50 shades of grey??

communist then? <:troll_face:726878856585281557>

people get socialism confused with public welfare..they are different things. if you oppose public welfare and high taxes, thats fine..but its not socialism

Nah more like corruption

Bro that bdsm stuff is wack😂

Hell nah

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i read the books

& watch the movies

Due to socialism

Do the workers own the “diverse” tech companies in there? Fuck, they don’t even have proper worker unions in there

Just stupid diversity nonsense

isn't socialism the redistribution of wealth?

socialism is when the government controls the means of production

ah k

that means, the state owns all businesses, all factories, all services

It depends on the variant of it they’re running

The forefathers would be mad at America right now

so then how is communism different to socialism?

You’re talking about communism, not socialism

in a socialist economy, you would not be allowed to set up your own business. not even a lemonade stall. it has to be owned and mandated by the state.

Capitalism is free market...the market is not entirely free over here yet we’re the example of the capitalist country.