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we must maintain the status quo (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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To anyone who supports capitalism or otherwise opposes socialism:

Do you support the idea that one man can accumulate enough wealth to own all land of this Earth, making everyone born in his empire under his rule as long as he can kill to defend it? What prevents capitalism from accomplishing this in law? What law exists that limits the borders of nations?

Why, then, must we endure a system where a single man owning the Earth and enslave it is a feature, not a bug?

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I just wanna know what people think. Why must this be maintained? Why is any opposition to capping wealth just the end of the world when it probably would save it, just logically thinking it through?

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

How are "we" going to tax the rich when politicians spend 30% of their time seeking campaign contributions?

Every political viewpoint has a flaw but that doesn't mean people should not bring up the flaw.

Let people criticize all political ideologies and through discourse people can examine what is true and what they want in the future

Capitalism facilitates the rich getting richer. It controls political activity. Capitalism is not a system that allows wealth to be distributed from the rich to the poor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I don't mind people bringing valid criticisms to capitalism, it has a lot of problems, but it bugs me that, instead of giving even semi realistic ideas, they come with "communism is flawless!" or "the anarchists way is perfect, nothing could go wrong!"

    When you then point out that all communist examples in practice resulted in terrorized citizens, famines and what not, you only get "no true Scotsman!" arguments.

    I do agree as well with you that current political rules (well mostly in the US) are shit. Politicians should never need to fund raise at all and should be chosen for their merits, not their skills in "saying something populist in 5 words or less"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    capitalism is not a system that allows wealth to be distributed from the rich to the poor

    That's like saying that a car does not allow food to be digested.

    Capitalism can and should be used as a driver for economic wealth whilst being controlled and capped by law.

    You are poor? You pay no taxes. Anybody else pays in brackets and when your net worth reaches 10 million? Anything above it gets taxed 100%. Same for companies, limit them to 500-1000 employees maximum, net worths maximum 100 million or a billion or something like that.

    This makes it that nobody gets too rich, nobody gets too powerful and the government gets a huge amount of tax wealth which it can use for a giant social system that gives free healthcare, education, housing, you name it. You could then egen umdo universal income and it requires no communism, no forcing people, no taking away of rights.

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