Confusion About Communism (news, benefits, meaning, wealthy)

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

What’s your motive for posting such a lie?

The numbers are all backed by sources like I said truth hurts.

[Troyfan]

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

Right no one has ever died under a capitalist regime! Oh wait...

You forgot those who died of old age. Old age was made possible by capitalist regimes, too.

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by Troyfan

You forgot those who died of old age. Old age was made possible by capitalist regimes, too.

Actually alot of scientific research is funded through government grants because surprise surprise the perfect free market doesn't provide the best incentive for research.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

That’s slavery pure and simple - I work, you eat.

Um, no. Because the way our tax system is set up, you still have more NET income the more you make, so someone who grosses $100k still Net's more than someone who grosses $75k

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by jetgraphics

"Wealth Equality?"

If money really cured poverty, let us give everyone 22 billion billion quatloos, making them “Set for life,” with more than they can ever spend. What happens if no one bothers to go to work, labor, manufacture, transport, and trade? Even the starving children are phenomenally wealthy.
Civilization collapses.

D'Oh.

False, societies with lower GINI coefficients than us like Switzerland have lower poverty and lower crime than us

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

False, societies with lower GINI coefficients than us like Switzerland have lower poverty and lower crime than us

Imagine that treating the poor like an asset instead of an enemy like the USA does.

[Troyfan]

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

Actually alot of scientific research is funded through government grants because surprise surprise the perfect free market doesn't provide the best incentive for research.

Research funded by money made available by the wealth capitalism has created.

[whogo]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

False, societies with lower GINI coefficients than us like Switzerland have lower poverty and lower crime than us

We had a lower GINI coefficient in 1820. Swiss Americans have a low crime rate.

[Troyfan]

To give communism its due, it has solved the problem of human obesity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywvzf7Bt1b0

[whogo]

Originally Posted by Troyfan

To give communism its due, it has solved the problem of human obesity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywvzf7Bt1b0

Maduro could shed a few pounds.