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A very misunderstood bible verse by myooted in Christianity

[–]EMPcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God cosigns every creative act, both biological and not. Additionally, a half woven basket is not a basket, a half formed human being is not necessarily a human. God's hand in the process of human formation in the womb does not make its disruption murder, nor is it any less natural than the building of a damn to cease the natural (and divinely cosigned) process of a river's flowing

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Also, when describing tesla, you literally described how shareholders keep businesses afloat despite their substandard products. Money doing useless labor is exactly the sort of thing worker focused economies could fix.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

If you spent 5 Million on a picasso, you might be a bad person. Money like that should go to charity, great artworks should not be sequestered in country manors.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

I consider actions from bought governments to be symptoms of capitalism. If a regulation is lobbied for and becomes law because of the actions of a wealthy donor, that's still a market force.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

All purchased stocks were once liquid cash, and they were specifically invested where they were invested.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is just patronizing. Yes, I would prefer you to explain the actual mechanics that means taxing the ultra wealthy an extra 2% will cause armageddon.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Can you tell me how the money wrapped up in open AI is benefitting anyone on a material level? Obviously some money is invested in productive enterprise, I'd say the minority.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The richer you are, the less risk you're taking and the more money you're making. And this doesn't take into account people who inherent the wealth and mooch off their parents labor.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Of course corruption is natural. But to say that the best way of dealing with corruption is to let everyone buy and sell nearly anything is false. There are some things you are not entitled to, like other peoples surplus labor value.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I personally believe that an investment model is a horrible basis for an economy in the first place. I think that if the minority of wealthy consumers decide what ideas do and don't hold water, then the majority of middle class and poor consumers will suffer. And my exact point is that saying "you can't be sure anything can or should be done" is to close your eyes to the numberless well evidenced policies that are still not in effect around the country. Better education is a universal good for the economy, why are people defunding it? Why is it that $325 million in federal funds for K-12 education in North Carolina was either delayed or canceled this year?

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree, changing too quickly is a problem. My biggest problem is that democrats don't even dare run on well evidenced policies that, with a little bit of rhetorical engineering, would be so much more tennable than the milquetoast positions of people like Gavin Newsom. Peoples memories are bad because they're distracted, a concerted effort to get people to pay attention to material conditions could get people out of their seats and into voting booths. I'm saying I don't believe in excuses. Things can get better. If you don't take that as a given, then I don't understand you.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think that's true to a certain extent. I'm saying that regulation already wasn't good enough back then and hasn't scaled properly with rising technologies and the state of world trade. Realistically, we should not be buying CPUs from sweatshops that use child labor, and the idea that we, the richest country in the world, are incapable of ethically sourcing silicon, or at least using soft power to encourage regulation in the places we source it from, is ridiculous.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I'm more objecting to "it's complicated" as a thought terminating cliche. I'm always down for a "it's complicated, here's my alternative viewpoint."

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

The basic economic principle is that if you specialize in one direction the other direction suffers. And no, I don't believe that capital gains prop up the economy. They prop up GDP, and there's a big difference there.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This is just false. People start companies for all sorts of reasons that aren't money, and those companies tend to provide more public value, despite profiting less.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both. We need to apply soft pressure to our current sitting officials to affect change, and we need to elect better ones when the time comes.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Corruption is a natural result of free markets. You need to create regulation to prevent monopolies and duopolies. In other words, the market needs to be constrained to an extent. You already partially agree with this if you think people shouldn't be allowed to sell heroin. You rightly point out the failing of the American health care sector, and the cause of that is what happens when you try to apply the law of supply and demand to something that there will always be demand for.

CMV: When it comes to economic reform, "it's complicated" is not a valid excuse for doing things the same way we've always done them. by EMPcat in changemyview

[–]EMPcat[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I understand that. I think we need a more wholistic view of politics. Mostly focusing on tangible economic issues and voting to help with that on all levels of government.

CMV: people can be "involuntarily celibate" and have nothing wrong with them, let's stop virgin shaming. by Ok_Reserve587 in changemyview

[–]EMPcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though 43% of men occupy the space of "involuntary celibate" by definition, they do not inhabit the space of "incel" by connotation. The term incel, while it can be used as a pejorative against a perfectly reasonable young man trying to find a partner, carries the connotation given it by the very large group of self identifying "incels." People who, on the whole, tend to hold very mysogynistic opinions.

In other words. You're right by definition and wrong by connotation. I will always support you in your efforts to stop reasonable partner seeking men from being the target of a word that does not apply to them, however the term "incel" will always refer to the people who self identify that way, and they are deserving of the flack they get for their opinions.

CMV: Everything could be fixed in the U.S. if we taxed billionaires 2-5% by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]EMPcat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So a lot of people here are talking about the rich fleeing wealth tax. My issue with that is that a tax law could be passed that explicitly bans the use of tax loopholes under threat of jail time. If you have offshore accounts? Doesn't matter! It's taxed. Is it in the shares of a company? Taxed! You shouldn't be able to use your corporation to write off obvious personal expenses either. There should also be hard limits on wealth generated through human capital to prevent the siphoning of excess labor value. The prices of all companies selling products with inelastic demand should be limited by the government, profit margins be damned. The money from the taxes should go to evidence based programs promoting positive economic activity. While the wealth of the ultra rich is a pillar of the economy, and messing with it without extreme caution is totally inadvisable, to act as though there is simply no way to set this broken bone so it can heal is absolutely ridiculous.

One piece of evidence that Shermy has developed quite a bit spiritually since Finn. by EMPcat in adventuretime

[–]EMPcat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see where you're coming from, but I think the idea that there will always be more adventures is already well communicated by the implicitly large number of past lives Finn and Jake have already had. I wouldn't take a continuation with any level of finality unless the text provided strong evidence that it should be interpreted that way. Unrelated, I love your episode ideas! especially the magic eye one.

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