Property here is different than poverty in other countries

great argument

"poor people are just stupid LMAO"

It depends on how you define poverty

@Geamr that’s what happens in freedom some choose to use there money differently

the poverty line is what i referenced hooty

There is higher and lower standards for poverty in different countries

>tfw you refuse to acknowledge there exsist confounding socioeconomic factors that disadvantage people

Poor people aren’t lazy dude @PugSlugger they just make different decisions

Everyone in America enjoys a higher standard of living

Except those poor poeple @Hooty

Almost everyone in America is in the 1% so

Even poor people here live better than rich people in some other countries

i dont think your math quite works there

@Geamr nearly everyone in America is in the 1%

That sounds great to me

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