much like herpes, I will never leave

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Equality of opportunity predates marx

By a couple hundred years

Marx was a total failure and everywhere in the world his ideas have been attempted they have self destructed, the communist manifesto is nothing more than whinging drivel.

while the end of scarcity is far beyond any of our lifetimes, basically yes

or, I guess that's socialism, full scale communism or marxism doesn't even merit that caveat

Equality of opportunity is an enlightenment value and is the principle that no one should be unjustly descriminated against or precluded from opportunity

Marx posited people could not be equal while individuals owned private property and private means of production. Blatantly false

the margin of people genuinely disenfranchised from opportunity is a fair sight overadvertised, granted

Socialism, state ownership of resources and means of production is the antithesis to equality of opportunity because opportunity is removed from the equation, instead of a meritocracy where the best and brightest excel the most the state determines how successful you can be

though even accounting for the genuinely disenfranchised, its rarely clear who has taken it from them or who should intervene

Communism is impossible due to the fact that it requires the removal of basic human nature

Perfect people do not exist and the average worker is out for himself and his "tribe"

Allowing mob ownership of resources and the means of production outside of a municipal level is economic suicide

Socialism is so far both unviable and unnattractive. the day scarcity of resources is solved, if ever, certainly not in any generation too soon after ours, it'll only be unnattractive

Socialism will never be viable as it still operates on the principles of scarcity, implying that there are only so many resources available and its immoral to allow any one person to own "too much"

my point being it could work in a completely different world

When and if scarcity is solved then we will have to come up with a completely new system of economics from scratch

I wouldn't imagine I'd ever see such a world, or even wish to participate in it, I'm just saying

I dont think scarcity will ever be solved

We will annihilate ourselves before then

maybe

though if the fusion tech tree bears fruit, maybe not

Whatever economic illiterates want to say capitalism is the best economic system we presently have

Although it will be interesting to see how A.I. changes that

best is a bit of a stretch. I'd simply call it the one with the lowest failure rate and most outwardly attractive

Thus meaning the best we have currently ^

I'm not comfortable calling a system best when its so easily manipulated into boom-bust cycles

The fact that it has lifted the entire western world out of destitution and poverty helps its case

I don't even think we know the mechanisms by which a capitalist economy fully functions

Most conservatives should be in favor of A.I. and UBI as A.I. progresses

like, from a manipulation perspective

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/05/hillary-clinton-trump-made-me-sick-to-my-stomach-pardoning-war-criminals/

as a conservative, I don't agree

Milton Freeman the father of modern conservative economics talks about it extensively

of course not. Economists are in the business of making determinations against certainties or uncertainties, not guarantees

but make a case

The entire point of UBI is similar to what goes on in Alaska, rather than the money just going to the government it goes to the citizens

oh jesus fuck, the worst person in the country to bitch about chumming up with war criminals

great, now no one will care