• AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    Can you quantify this surplus? Because your unqualified statement requires there to be enough to meet ANY demand. You just sound like a genzedong tankie who does not understand the most basic market theory that for every demand there must be a counterpart, who themselves will have demands, and there’s no unlimited resource hack IRL (yet).

    Your right to life ends where my right to not get unalived by your wishes ends.

    Sorry meant to add here and this app needs polish… Deleted comment too slowly.

    Also your tangent changed subjects. Right to life. Criminality vs liberties.

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      8 months ago

      How do you get unalived by taxing the wealthy? How do the wealthy get unalived by not being allowed to hoard excess resources beyond their consumption? And how is their ownership not an infringement on the rights of the poor to not be unalived by exploitative systems?

      Your grasp on the subject is beyond tenuous, it’s outright non-existent. I don’t know what conversation you think you have the capacity to be part of, but this is not the one you want.

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        8 months ago

        Your grasp of how money works is surface level.

        Let’s start here: billionaires do not have billions of dollars like Scrooge McDucks swimming in gold. They hold securities for companies that are doing things on the idea that they can sell them and redeploy that capital later.

        In other words: the money means nothing. All that wealth means is they’re the ones who control resources.

        By similar reasoning, modern monetary theory is that government can print money and activate unused resources without driving inflation very much.

        So what you want is a planned economy. Soviet style. In fact the language you use makes it clear you’re fully bought into tankie propaganda.

        There are 3 ways to make people do things: money, love and power. So am I going to give you everything you need because of love? money is clearly not the means to ends in your system. That leaves the threat of unaliving.

        And so we’re back at gun control, the only way your kind is able to make such a system work: by killing everyone who disagrees.