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But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them?

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@NoJusticeMTG Yes, but it's also unchecked Danil slander.

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

I think the best solution to poverty is a mixture of predistribution and redistribution - in other words, social democracy. The evidence bears this out.

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@rohit_ajitkumar @Ramsey_Kilani Sadly, "he threw a weird hissy fit" is par for the course from him.

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@daniel_dsj2110 Homeboy wrote Road to Serfdom only to end up on the Road to False Equivalencies.

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@tonyannett What are you talking about? We are headed to well over 2 degrees of warming under current policies.

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@sc_cath Mfw correlation is not causation

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@ArchieHall @TheEconomist My goodness. At least chew on these stale arguments before regurgitating next time.

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@LandBeforeSlime @ArchieHall @TheEconomist I mean, it's also not on the radar of people who avoid half-baked prose redolent of an undergraduate essay.

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I was anticipating an argument almost exactly like this. Blanching at redistribution and breathless cliches about the miracle of free enterprise.

[Mario Zúñiga @MZunigaP]

"How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism":

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

This sort of whining by people who think they’re above small talk does get pretty tedious

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Not a China simp by any means, but this community note is pure cope.

Like, yes, they used a different measure for a country that hadn't *started* industrialising until the 1950s -- half-a-decade after America had finished doing so.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

According to data from the World Bank, the share of the population living in extreme poverty ($3/day PPP) is now higher in the United States than in China.

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@StephanieGailW2 Bro is also about 7 years late on incel hysteria. Tweet would've gone off if Joker was still in theatres.

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@GlompLiberals "That's awesome -- mine has Mickey Mouse on it!"

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

I like how these people have given up on even pretending to be good guys and they’ve embraced the evil, demonic aesthetic that matches their world view.

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

In May, the federal budget did something Australian budgets almost never do. It touched the tax concessions that protect wealth. The response was predictable and it had nothing to do with salaried Australians.

Like these two…and the vast majority of Australians.

A registered nurse, 34, in Melbourne’s outer north. Under $90k, an essential job, still paying off the degree that got her there. Her rent is up more than a third in three years. Her pay isn’t. She did everything her generation was told to do, and she’s going backwards.

A maintenance supervisor, 51, keeping a regional NSW town’s biggest employer running. Fixed his mortgage at 2% in 2021 and felt secure for the first time. Rolled onto a rate three times higher. Repayments up more than $1,000 a month, on a wage that didn’t move.

Neither owns an investment property. Neither has a lobby, a peak body, or a meme campaign. Between them they are most of the country and in the week the budget tried, however modestly, to shift the balance back towards them, the airwaves belonged to the people they’ll never become.

The salaried majority has been getting poorer for years while the national conversation was about someone else. Those with asset power.

New piece, link below

[Polly Pocketknife🌸🔪 @polypocketknife]

remember when the simpsons predicted chat gpt

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@benbackupbackup Having read it then, surely you can muster a compelling counterargument?

So far, others have just claimed "inequality doesn't actually matter" and "countries got richer" which doesn't really debunk what Rainer's claiming is a myth.

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So many desperate, clammy defenses on behalf of Capitalism lately. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[PraxBen, but I am tired of ts @benbackupbackup]

One of the most underrated books right now. I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about it.

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@PhilWMagness This is just admitting he's more important but with extra whining about how it's not fair.

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@benbackupbackup Ah, yes. He debunks myths like "Capitalism leads to growing inequality."

He should've been a bit more selective on those. You only have to glance at what happened to most countries following market liberalization to see he's flailing.

[Streeterville Socialist @pasta_nachos]

main issue with all of these 'capitalism vs. socialism' debates is that they confuse governance design with collective ownership. Badly governed collectives that allow slackers underperform, whether they're capitalist or socialist