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@beyond_capital 1. Socialists just want the fruit of their labor.
2. Some socialists discover they get pretty much the same fruit if they don't labor
3. Socialists stop laboring
4. Socialists get less fruit
5. Socialists revolt against people who still have fruit

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@libobral Capital City tells the districts they need to be more thankful for their existence. If it weren't for their lavish parties, there'd be no one to purchase their resources.

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@CollinRugg Mega Millions pulls 6 ping pong balls out of a hopper and within 12 seconds, they can determine a winner at a gas station in Weehawken, NJ and a kiosk at a Safeway in Stockton, CA out of the 215 million tickets sold.
Counting ballots...could take weeks.

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@QuincyAvery Was this unpaid labor voluntary or did pirates raid poor neighborhoods and steal away all the strong males?

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@Buddhagem People in the city be like "we make so much money and keep you losers afloat"
Rural people be like:

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@DarrigoMelanie Feds spend $813 million an hour.
Taxing him at 100% would bring it down to $810 million/hour.
Or we can confiscate all billionaire assets and reduce the debt to a manageable $30 trillion.
Going after the rich is a band-aid, not a cure.

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@EricSpracklen When they bought this cute little ranch 50 years ago, it was in the middle of nowhere.
Why don't you grab this one and wait until 2076 to sell it for $11 million?

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@awkwardgoogle "When exactly did a steady full-time job stop being enough to build a normal life?"
When your standard of "normal life" increased to more stuff than a basic full-time job covers.

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@alluringmedia Most billionaires have low liquidity.
They're "worth" billions because they own a significant portion of a large corporation.
Like saying I should give someone $100,000 because I own my home, despite having $3,400 in my bank account.

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@x_skeng Linearly, no.
Exponentially, yes.
If I save a million dollars and open a restaurant or a Jiffy Lube or whatever, I'm risking $1,000,000 of my own money so I need the opportunity of a proportional return.
If that gets me another million, I open a second Jiffy Lube and so on...

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@aakashgupta You realize he's speaking about general behavioral trends and using the $28 lunch as an example, right?
If he said "get healthier by doing 20 push-ups at lunch" would you respond with "Yeah, that's only like 12 calories so it would take 20 years to lose 25 pounds."

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@EmbitteredThe @omgsidewalks True, but the smaller the lifestyle difference between work and non-work, the larger the welfare population

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@AuronMacintyre Every society is a "we" which requires a "they" to rail against. Until 1990, the USSR filled that role. Now we look inward for our boogeyman

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@EmbitteredThe @omgsidewalks So if a socialist doesn't work, they receive nothing because the value of their labor is zero?

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@KristinRaworth He was found not guilty in a court of law. What questions would you ask? "I know this is the Stanley Cup Finals, but I'm a woman, so...how can you live with yourself after legally not committing a crime?"

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@MetamateDaz "instead of feeding Wall Street"
Your 401k is Wall Street.
My rainy-day nest egg is Wall Street.
A teacher's PERA account is Wall Street.

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@alexbrasky The traditional franchises have failed the traditional franchises.
In 2026, what NHL rules give a team established in 2017 an advantage over one established in 1967 or 1927?
Being bad and OLD doesn't make you more deserving.

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@BillWiIdin You know rail construction costs are proportional to the distance, right?

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@_6signxxx Well, there's also the attempted rebellion, captured US armory and 5 dead but I guess that was "mostly peaceful".