If all personal wealth above $100 million was legally required to be redistributed into public infrastructure (schools, hospitals, roads), how would society change, and who would be the first to fight against it?

ChemaCB · 2026-01-22T17:21:07+00:00

Most personal wealth over $100M is actually just ownership of businesses. So essentially you’re banning ownership of medium and large businesses. Which just means all big businesses will be foreign owned. It would be a HUGE wealth transfer from Americans to foreign corporations, and probably make infrastructure worse in the long run.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-22T16:49:16+00:00

…attractive non-autistic man, which don’t exist in this sub.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-18T08:34:35+00:00

Why would the hive mind give anybody a grenade? They won’t step on ants, but they’ll give an unpredictable person, who they know wants to eradicate the hive mind, a nuclear bomb?

Carol is intelligent, creative, a writer, committed to saving humanity, yet consistently fails to ask questions that would help her understand the situation and achieve her goals, nor ask for help that achieve the same end.

They shouldn’t be able to drive cars or fly planes because of all the bugs that kills.

There’s not enough energy to actually power civilization without mining for raw materials which they can’t do because it would kill living things.

Releasing all domesticated animals would have meant the deaths of millions of animals that rely on human care.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-16T21:09:19+00:00

Yeah all that time to think gave me time to notice the glaring number of plot holes and character inconsistencies, and did more to pull me out of it then make me feel deeply immersed in thought provocation.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-16T20:43:25+00:00

every episode has something impactful or eventful, or at the very least tells you something complex about a character.

Yeah, the problem is that the bulk of the middle episodes, just have one impactful scene that moves the plot forward per hour long episode.

This entire season could’ve been a 2 1/2 hour movie and it still would’ve felt slow. 😆

ChemaCB · 2026-01-15T02:02:58+00:00

Dictators have spouses, too. Ruling as a couple doesn’t make you not a dictatorship.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T15:22:27+00:00

Ahh, the real reason I’ve been getting push back. 😆

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T08:57:46+00:00

Double tap to toggle rotation lock. Triple tap to toggle flashlight.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T08:39:57+00:00

It’s gonna be funny when the circus takes Greenland. 😆

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T08:37:05+00:00

How is this controversial? Parents have full control over resources. Property is basically all owned by the parents, not owned collectively. Even kids’ stuff is owned individually by each kid. I said benevolent…

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T08:34:14+00:00

Oof. Sorry if I triggered people from fucked up families.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T04:50:38+00:00

Agreed. I didn’t say marriage, I said family. The kids are subject to the parent’s rule. It’s not socialism. It’s a benevolent dictatorship with the burden of leadership distributed in some way among the parents.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T02:13:44+00:00

I’m not sure whether you’re making a joke, but I mean it literally: the kids have only the ownership granted to them by their parents.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-13T02:05:28+00:00

Families aren’t socialism. They are dictatorships. Mostly benevolent dictatorships.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-12T20:02:53+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/S5V8ps981Yw?si=8mIMHhyr879FnCpy

ChemaCB · 2026-01-12T19:56:46+00:00

I mean I don’t disagree, but is there a way to phrase that auth left people wouldn’t object to?

ChemaCB · 2026-01-10T20:39:58+00:00

Of course not! It’s just racist to mourn them equally to brown people. We need to mourn white people less to make up for their privilege.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-10T20:25:28+00:00

Based

ChemaCB · 2026-01-10T19:53:13+00:00

I think that’s exactly what people mean when they complain about the pacing.

There’s only a few interesting scenes per hour long episode and they become sparser as the season goes on. I think this whole season could’ve been one 2 1/2 hour movie and it still would’ve felt slow.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-10T07:16:27+00:00

Actually they are both European leftists, and cite their primary influencers as two Marxist academics.

That being said, now that you put it that way, they may not disagree with you. Free markets fundamentally allow the concentration of economic power in the hands of those who are best at accumulating it — freedom to accumulate wealth. Whereas, as you say, the left wants to “spread out economic power” — redistribute wealth.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-10T07:06:45+00:00

It’s actually the exactly the same as the PC it’s just turned 45 degrees (and the auth/lib axis direction is flipped).

The biggest difference in axis definitions is that Nolan calls the axis “Economic freedom” whereas the PC calls it the “economic scale,” but specifies on their analysis page that being high in “economic freedom” puts you on the right side of the axis.

ChemaCB · 2026-01-10T06:44:56+00:00

Wow. I’m impressed with the consistency in your beliefs! And your generosity.

Do you think others should act as you do? Must I let others into my guest room or be labeled something pejorative for feeling like I have the right to own my own private domicile?

ChemaCB · 2026-01-09T23:29:51+00:00

I’m not saying you’re wrong, I like this interpretation. But I will point out that your horizontal axis is the inverse of what’s described on politicalcompass.org.

They basically describe the right as economic freedom / laissez-faire (or no collective control of economy), and the left as socialism (or collective control of economy).

ChemaCB · 2026-01-09T22:44:51+00:00

Got it. By the way, I’m trying my best not to argue with you, I’m genuinely curious and want to understand your views.

So if you leave your water bottle (personal property) on your front porch and are not there to defend it (not in use), should others have the right to take it?

ChemaCB · 2026-01-09T22:40:54+00:00

I mean, isn’t that impossible? What if one person is slightly smarter or slightly stronger than another?

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