And there’s no shortage of opportunities to escape poverty

1% of the world population is 70 million, the us population is like 350 million

Capitalism is about equality of opportunity

how are most of those in the 1% then

Whereas communism is equality of outcome

equality of opportunity is a lie

it does not exist

Think of how an online RPG game works

Anyone can start from the bottom and rise to the top

yeah cause in real life everyone starts off with the same stats... nobody gets rich parents or drug addict parents

nope doesnt happen

just ignore everyone has a chance

you can all be millionaires just keep working at mcdonalds

It doesn’t matter what stats you start with

Yes it does

how dense can you be

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615/are-you-top-one-percent-world.asp @Geamr

If you are a high level player but don’t constantly maintain your status, new players can overtake you

And over time, the game gets easier and easier for newer players to catch up

Good for you, that has no bearing on discussing the issue

Can you imagine an online RPG using communist ideas?

Where you have no money, no class and no guilds?

@Frosty the article says 770k $ is the threshohold.. do you think those 30 million people at or below the poverty line have that much money?

This is a perfect analogy

You can create the conditions of communism within an MMORPG

It just will never work

@Geamr lol 33,000 is

"The threshold is significantly higher if you look at the top percentile by wealth instead of income. To reach that status, you’d have to possess $770,000 in net worth"

Nobody will want to play that game

minimum wage in the US gives you about 15k

a year

I’m talking about income

and because you cant think of a way to make an engaging game with a communist theme that means communism is impractical? bulletproof logic karl marx just went red in his grave from shame

This is exactly what commies know would happen

Mmmmmm yummm

the masses get poor and the few rich people get richer

That’s good

You can live on a dollar a day in America

only for the rich ones

No

Yes