mark stoltzfus

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@BladeoftheS Rent control guarantees nothing hets built

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

More money doesn’t increase productivity. Productivity is really the only thing that matters. Money is just the intermediary that makes it possible without the inefficiencies of a bartering system.

Thats why the OPs entire premise is stupid. We already produce excess food, the problem is local political upheavals. That problem is impossible to solve with mere money and usually just makes the problem worse.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct Private schools are cheaper. Literally cheaper. Im trying to figure out if you are trolling or not.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct Explain why the voucher programs (in the states and counties it is available) get flooded. People consistently ditch public schools at the first opportunity if financially possible.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@PoSVibsOnly @ElMarioPuraVida @IandOPodcast @hell_line0 Its doing ok and growing. But he was right, no one i know knew the world cup was in the US until the European fans started drinking bars dry.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct To clarify, the county i live in has 20% of all students going to private schools. Close to 90% of those living outside the main city go to private school.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct Affordability. I live in an area where people send their kids to private schools if at all possible. They will borderline bankrupt themselves to avoid the cesspool that is public schooling.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct Correct, its their only option. Not because its good, but because its better than nothing. It is terrible.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@RealWerbs @BladeoftheS On the flip side, if there is still mass documented migration when welfare is completely unattainable for them, then that would be a net positive since they would have to be productive to be here.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

Treating “ability” as an unchanging attribute is so childish. Ability arises from motivation and desperation. Neither exists in any real amount if all your needs are taken care of. In the end productivity plummets and innovation stops because why bother.

Humans are selfish which you correctly point out can lead to undesirable results in capitalism. However you completely fail at considering what selfish humans would do in a communist society.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

Your mistake is assuming that is special only to capitalism. Its human nature. The difference is capitalism puts up guardrails and allows it, communism refuses to even recognize it and backfires spectacularly.

Ukraine went from growing most of Europes wheat to famine when transitioning to communism. The farmer, no longer motivated by greed, didn’t really care about his crops so the yields plummeted. Etc etc etc.

Greed is a powerful tool for productivity and innovation. The most powerful economic tool.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct I am beginning to think this is satire.

There is no way you just brought up public vs private school as a point for the government.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct Did you seriously just bring up the VA? Did you ever talk to veterans about the VA? Its terrible.

Wherever the government got involved in housing it has been a shitshow.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

Objectively speaking there are no poor people in America. Our poorest biggest problem is that they are too fat and sedentary. Do you realize how good a country has to be for their poor to have too much food and don’t need to move around enough? That is insanity when compared to all of human history.

However there is still a gap in wealth, that gap will likely always be there because of the freedom we have. You have the freedom to be productive, sacrifice and gain tremendous wealth, or ignore all that and do nothing, then post on X about how unfair the system is.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

A billionaire has practically no power over me, doesn’t affect me at all. However there isn’t a society on earth in any time period that survived going after their rich. Chaos, war, bloodshed, and poverty are usually the result.

So i don’t simp for billionaires, I simp for stability and a decent country.

Meanwhile you simp for the government who is infinitely more powerful, many times the money and still can’t even build a park bench without going 3x over budget.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

Communism has no such incentive structures. It just states that “it shall be so”. Problem is, it completely breaks down instantly since groups of humans are entirely unmotivated by “bettering society” as an incentive.

An incentive is something that you personally gain from doing a thing. Basically just using greed as fuel. Capitalism takes advantage of this, communism tries to crush it. Personal fortunes and greed still will exist in communism, just in a slimier, more brutal, corruption way.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@karlmarxisright @Libertyrefuge @AFpost So why post something like that on a heartbreaking story where the victim is literally on trial? All you did was demean those bringing this to our attention, perhaps in an attempt to water it down, make it seem “not as bad”.

Classic tactic of Marxists.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@thoughtographic @longshotist Except I don’t listen to, respect or base my opinions on any of those pictured. Still think communism is bad. Because it is. It destroys the risk/reward system that motivates productivity and innovation.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@berniefan123 @JLuther2026 @jeremyct Ah yes, because every industry the government gets involved in ends up brilliantly. Like healthcare, or college, etc.

[mark stoltzfus @marka9619]

@JLuther2026 @jeremyct Oof that is hilarious, got me good. Its a shame something this far out can’t even be disregarded out of hand as satire.