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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.
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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
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"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
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.
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