@DanielPriestley If asked politely, people will give to help others, but taking it by force and then wasting it on things that the person from whom was taken has no saying it is not just and fair it is forcible stealing.
Genuinely, socialism is the best sounding system.
It makes perfect sense for a society to work together to elevate the living standards of everyone together.
It makes sense that if someone builds something of enormous value, we accept that it was inevitable that it would have been created at some point and that it was society as a whole that went into the discovery.
It seems fair that we would all accept that people have vastly different abilities that yield very different commercial value. How unfair that the person who is naturally good at negotiating a roll-up acquisition strategy is wildly more rewarded than the nurse who returns someone to health or who allows someone to die with dignity.
Honestly, I see it. I understand it.
The issue is that we are primates running on ancient software. We don’t do stuff for the collective good, we do stuff for our kids.
The person who strives for an A on the exam doesn’t study if the grades are equalised. The entrepreneur doesn’t start the company when half the rewards are redistributed to those who didn’t - even though they couldn’t.
We’re happy sharing to an extent but we’re not content to put it all in the pot. We’re happy to help those who clearly cannot survive on their own but we’re not happy supporting those who don’t want to work or who struggle to get motivated or focused.
Socialism is the smartest system but it doesn’t actually work and has never worked. Really smart people like socialism because they can see how much better society could be … if only it worked.
Even John Lennon kept the royalties to Imagine. His heirs will never need to work again from that one song alone. If he truly believed what he was saying, he would declare that it belongs to “all the people living for today”.
Capitalists accept human nature. We know there is a better way but we know it’s out of reach. We understand that if you can harness self interest in a pro-social way you will lift living standards enormously. The restaurant owner will feed the village not because it’s good for society but because it’s good for his kids… either way the village is fed. John Lennon will write uplifting songs … but only if he owns the rights.
The most important part about capitalism isn’t that it’s better - it’s not. It’s that it actually works in the real world.
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Zero women or children. Only military-aged men.
That’s because they’re not refugees. They are soldiers, and this is a religious war of conquest.
Europe needs to wake up.
He did not call for it in his post. He post is in relation to what many of us already heard from the UK channels. He was actually late to the game, surprisingly.
And the failures of Stramer are true. So what's the problem? It's not like going to a funeral where everyone must say nice things. The guy resigned because he failed not because he was a great PM, hence the resignation.
The whole world seems to be in the same boat. They come in uninvited and ungrateful and demand extra accommodation and show no respect for our culture judging by the desecration and burning of our churches. Everything that it is offensive to them must be removed from our countires flags or faith, they demand their own spaces and build small countries within a country, they defraud our countires, while proselytizing their religion must be accepted in every place from schools to all public places. They don't come here because they desire the life we or Japan has they come to impose their own beliefs on us. Truth is not racist. But they will scream it is nonetheless.
They live protected in their little castles by the British taxpayers' money, the same taxpayers that must now support the new comers they bring in to feel good about themselves. So, they either haven't a clue, or they simply don't give a rat's tail about it. Either way, they live a peaceful life until they make bad choices out of boredom.
In two weeks, the US will celebrate 250 years since it was formed by 13 colonies as an experiment. It took some time to iron out some of the imperfections, and in some areas, it is still a work in progress.
Rome was built in over 2,000 years, and Prague is many centuries old.
Also, remember that all the beautiful buildings in Europe that everyone admires were built at great costs for regular people who lived in huts, it took a long time to be finished, and there were generational improvements and additions. Some of the great buildings took as much as half of the US existence.
You have to put everything in the right perspective.
Europe was built by the poor for the rich by birth, and America was built by the people for the people.
Milton Friedman:
“We are not governed by the people—that’s a myth that carries over from Abraham Lincoln’s day. We don’t have government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
“We have government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats.”
Proverbs 20:7 (CSB)
“The righteous person acts with integrity; his children who come after him will be happy.”
If you want something that is deeply emotional and points directly to God’s heart as Father, this is difficult to surpass: