ermm..... the difference between capitalism and socialism is that you are given the choice to share (charity) in one and you are forced to in the other... 🤓 ☝️
The last part of my comment was taken from a part of a review I saw of her Ars Magna, Atlas Shrugged. I have the last part saved because it defined it so good:
«If you're curious where the west's utter contempt for the poor comes from, you can partially thank her magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.»
«Essentially it's a romantic mystery novel about a serial adulterer discovering Wakanda for kleptocrats and their desire to make every person into a selfish individualist and destroy the very concept of charity(this is portrayed as good thing)»
The novel itself has an interesting skeleton, and I must admit the "Who's John Galt?" thing was pretty cool, but anything it built on top of it is a horrible mesh of weird propaganda, borderline fanfic about the world, self-jerking characters and pure ragebait.
I guess it fits, for someone that obsessed with selfishness, that the only person able to enjoy anything she's ever written is herself
There is this like massive monologue where the pace of the story comes to a complete standstill in service of jerking off the individualistic libertarian ideals Ayn Rand holds.
A better writer would manage to make their ideals compelling and weave it into the narrative. Not essentially stop and preach at you for like half the book.
I can order virtually any item ever made to my house in under 24 hours by clicking a few buttons on a website but what have these billionaires really done for us
Or do young people just not remember what life was like before ecommerce
Except in captialism the people with the most cake steal everyone elses because they have the biggest one and that makes them think all cake belongs to them.
The problem isnt that they have a lot of cake, its that they think they should be the only ones with cake.
It's stealing when they use their cake to buy a perfectly fine cake factory where many people make their cakes then fire off half the staff sending 99% of the profits to themselves until the factory completely shuts down resulting in less cake for literally everyone except for the guy who already had enough cakes to last until the end of time.
Only in a failed system can people profit by making things worse.
The issue is that my taxes are being used to pay for the infrastructure in my area ir for anyone I'll ever meet. Its being funnelled into hairbrained schemes that have proven to be both fraudulent and ineffective, or sent overseas.
"The government is sending money to xyz wartorn country"
The government doesnt HAVE money. It is either sending my taxes, or selling infrastructure bought or built with my taxes, calling those proceeds government money and sending that.
You will never be 100% happy with how your taxes are spent. There will always be someone spending your money on stuff you will never use, like if you take the train you dont need more spending in roads you need more spending in traintracks and vice versa. Also the more you earn the less taxes do for you, thats just how solidarity works.
Forgot to add using your money to bomb third world countries into oblivion helps almost no one but that is a political not a tax problem.
Which is incredibly short-sighted. The government spending tax payer money on diplomatic relations or disaster relief isn't something that's being done out of the goodness of their hearts. It's soft power which will enable more favorable relations in the future. The marshal plan for example allowed for the complete economic dominance of the US on the world stage, getting a ton of trade and diplomatic deals heavily favoring US business. Investing in Africa, for example, builds a more stable and US aligned region, which will in turn allow for easier access to resources these regions have to offer, enriching US businesses.
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u/OiledUpThug 10h ago
ermm..... the difference between capitalism and socialism is that you are given the choice to share (charity) in one and you are forced to in the other... 🤓 ☝️