21 sats \ 11 replies \ @TomK 1 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Whatever happened to personal responsibility? bitcoin
You can observe communists/ socialists following the same agenda since Plato:
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Destroy the family as last protection from the state
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Attack the language as zivil. base layer of repeated morals. (Media control)
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Overtaking the education of the youngsters
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Destroying free culture
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Destroying private property
Isn't the exact same true about rampant capitalism? It's about control from either end of the spectrum.
Make the only authority the rich and powerful.
Have the poors fight over what words should be banned (see also distractions).
Overtake education of youngsters, teach them not to think but to obey authority and to sit and work for 8hrs a day.
Destroy free culture by aggressively shorting the fuck outta new innovation.
Destroy private property. WEF - you will own nothing and be happy.
I don't think this is about capitalism Vs communism at all. I think political arguements serve as a distraction from what is really happening. The consolidation of wealth and power.
How I can see this is the case. It doesn't matter who's in charge in what election cycle. Dem, repub. It doesn't matter, nothing changes, if nothing changes with two polar opposite parties, then politics isn't the answer. Follow the money, who's buying your representatives? That's who's really calling the shots and they don't care about Red or Blue. They care about them and only them.
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"rampant" capitalism under a system of soft money ends up flowing back up to the state. In a hard money system rampant capitalism, if permitted, should only really lead to the creation of capital .
Once can attempt to use their entrepenrial wealth and capital creation to amass power but the opportunity cost of doing so becomes enormous.
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Yes right. But if You want to keep power(s) in check You need to empower the individual. Best way we know to do so is by free market capitalism that is based on absolute private property rights.
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Would also like to ask. If the best way we know how is completely ineffective. Is it the best way?
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Sorry, I don't get Your question. In my opinion history has proven the collectivistic approach as inhuman and ineffective. Do You refer in this direction?
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You said that our current method is the best way we know how. I'm contesting that anything this broken can be the best of anything except perhaps the best example of a failed and corrupt experiment.
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Do you need to empower the individual? Or do you just need to make the individual feel empowered? The illusion of empowerment is just as good as keeping the masses under control. Only now you haven't given up any real power to keep them that way.
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In the long civilization needs real empowerment of the individual by private property. Short term propaganda and dillusion can be working for sure as well
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Absolutely. But shorttermism is a plague that society has fully caught. I once heard it referred to as "microwave culture" everyone wants everything now and no one wants to wait for results in the long term.
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What's the deal with this McCarthyism? Jesus was a socialist, man. Read more.
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Good one
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