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The purchasing power of middle class households has been declining over the years, this is not undisputed

The whole "Wealth inequality gap is further than ever seen before" bs.

@Capitán Alatriste https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/06/21/sure-the-middle-class-is-shrinking-30-of-americans-are-too-rich-to-be-middle-class-now/#7c15c6f621c8

Here is the proper report: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-incomes-upper-middle-class/view/full_report

Yep

The big difference between capitalism and socialism in this front is there is more class fluidity in capitalism.

So the first article is based on the second?

Yes

Yeah, so the fatal mistake Vaush is making here is presuming that, if collective ownership of the means of the production occurred, productivity would remain the same or increase. As all implementations of communism have shown us throughout history, the opposite of this occurs. Productivity occurs because a small subset of highly-driven individuals (entrepreneurs) drive forward productivity, as shown by the Pareto Principle.

Humans are reward based. If there is something an individual can get no one else does, a goal, they are more apt to work harder.

Hell even Lenon saw this towards the end. Iirc so did stalin.

Lenin saw this so he used created private incentives using the NEP. Stalin saw this so he created punishments as incentives. Both realized incentives were needed, its just Stalin's incentives were absolutely brutal

beating will continue until morale improves

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Joe act so crazy that Bernie looks normal

@Astral_Andy do you realize that this isn't sargon's official server right?

well we are the better one. the other is pay to play

Even if this was Sargon's offical server how does that make us his offical hivemind?

@galesteppes I didn't, but it doesn't really matter.

Philosophical discussion is philosophical discussion, wherever it is, and this seems like a good forum for it.

Yup we like to throw the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAlp0f0MwVk

"Sargon" has actually given a fair summary of what happened... but then, YouTube debates are rarely productive anyway
https://youtu.be/Usa5A5oJnKE

Well he didn't know what a grooming gang is

or

FGM

interestingly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvNFRi3auc

https://tenor.com/view/there-it-is-well-there-it-is-gif-8569483

imagine my shock

https://tenor.com/view/how-dare-you-greta-thunberg-gif-15130785

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@-5K- stalin also had awards...towards the very end. They were mostly meaningless but they did raise production slightly.

https://twitter.com/Richardwtaylors/status/1201220248394973184

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@Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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