@Mignanimousman @Knightly65@meakoopa So my landlord owns his house and the duplex that I live in, and honestly he’s the nicest guy you’d ever want to meet and he’s helped my family greatly (free rent for months when my dad died) So where does someone like him fit in?
@Mignanimousman @Knightly65@meakoopa Appreciate talking to you, I’m eventually going to figure out exactly what I believe and by then I’ll probably be dead, but my only hope is that the world will be a safe place for my niece and nephews, and because that’s what 99% of people want maybe we can make it happen
@Mignanimousman @Knightly65@meakoopa I do, but I also think it’s dangerous for one person or group of people to dictate whether someone’s value is appreciable. You might think me manipulating tree carcasses for a living isn’t real work so I don’t deserve my paycheck and private vehicle. Because then ....
@Mignanimousman @Knightly65@meakoopa Without trampling the rights of people who own things now? As a non-owner of property I would love to acquire some. But if the system that gets me the property is cruel and Orwellian I think I’d rather try to get it under the current system
@Mignanimousman @Knightly65@meakoopa That’s what I’m asking. You seem to be describing a world where the only thing that protects your property is one’s ability to protect it. I don’t agree that might makes right, I’m just saying, really, how do we bring the rest of the world into property ownership
@Mignanimousman @Knightly65@meakoopa But things don’t have arbitrary value. The work that a makeup person does on a tv show is not as integral to the product as the host
@Knightly65@meakoopa So are they now guilty for the collective sins of the west by dint of birth? Do all Americans have to have their property seized to create a “fair” world?
@Knightly65@meakoopa I agree that that is an almost intractable problem, because how is it some impoverished Ethiopians fault that he was born when and where he was? How can he ever expect to own property? At the same time people born into western countries are innocent in their birth
@cowabungatime@DataProgress That’s bullshit, as an agnostic in an evangelical family I can say with certitude that Christians don’t look to Trump as their spiritual leader, in fact most of them didn’t vote for him