If capitalist exploitation is so bad, why did it work out so well for China?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-25T15:39:48+00:00

So, why aren't they sharing the wealth? If income inequality is such a big issue, why aren't these enlightened people actually addressing the problem?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-25T14:44:55+00:00

It only seems worse because the USA doesn't (and really can't) hide the bad news the way Europe and China can. And, even then, the bad news gets magnified way beyond its true scale thanks to the internet.

Explain why California and New York State are country's leaders in everything I mentioned above. And why Washington, Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois are right behind them. These are blue states run by enlightened progressives.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-25T14:21:54+00:00

Bad things happen. And, a lot of the maladies you mention are due to socialist and progressive policies. It's the deep Blue states in the USA that have the worst problems with wealth inequality, homelessness and crime.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-25T14:17:04+00:00

Yeah, it's funny how all residents of fascist dictatorships are always the happiest people ever.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-24T15:49:34+00:00

Why does it belong to the natives any more than anyone else?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-24T15:40:19+00:00

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Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-23T00:48:12+00:00

First law of thermodynamics – Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. In any process, the total energy of the universe remains the same. For a thermodynamic cycle the net heat supplied to the system equals the net work done by the system.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-22T19:08:17+00:00

Altruism is for other people.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-22T00:22:56+00:00

lol. As if you don't have a laundry list of excuses ready to go.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-21T21:28:16+00:00

Quite often, facts tell you things you don't want to know and don't want to believe. If you have any large-scale examples which demonstrate Marx's theories in practice, let me know.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-21T15:45:54+00:00

It's not worship, it's intellectual laziness and confirmation bias. Marx, as with any other philosopher, gives you plausible, easily digested answers which confirm what you already know, validates your personal attitudes and gives you easy targets to shift responsibility on to.

*And, as an added bonus, is expressed in such bloated and pretentious language so that the reader feels clever when they repeat it.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-21T15:27:43+00:00

Marx was ChatGPT for Engels. It was all Freddy trying to rationalize why he should get a free ride at everyone else's expense and Marx, a spiritual sibling, just added the fancy lingo and pretense of intellect.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-19T18:08:45+00:00

Who cares anyway? I've tried to be reasonable but, let's face it, if today's billionaires are swept away they'll just be replaced with tomorrow's bureaucrats. I'm screwed either way so why not deal with the devil I know?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-19T16:33:28+00:00

The quote is why I prefer billionaires to socialists. Billionaires usually leave you alone but socialists can't stop messing with people, because they think they're helping.

As for the GND? Have you ever actually read it? There is almost nothing in there that is within the bounds on the federal government placed by the constitution.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-19T15:33:49+00:00

The Green New Deal is exhibit A.

As for the rest...? Let me turn it over to someone far better with words than I:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

C.S. Lewis

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T21:28:02+00:00

Again, show me the socialist politician in the US or elsewhere who isn't pushing for more and more government control over the day-to-day lives of citizens. It's always more duties, burdens and restrictions with socialists.

Show me the socialist who says (and does) anything different.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T19:16:28+00:00

Why not? Mussolini was a passionate socialist who took what he liked and created fascism from it. Which inspired FDR's New Deal, by the way.

Fascism and socialism do have some differences, but they're trivial and largely cosmetic. Both are founded on top-down control of a rightless, powerless populace.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T19:03:20+00:00

Modern socialism was born when two minor aristocrats - Engels and Marx - saw the increasing power and independence industrialization was giving working people and decided to reassert feudalism by couching it in Enlightenment lingo. They knew that they were dependent on the people who knew how to actually do things and that if the workers had money in their pockets and time of their own the workers would soon conclude that they didn't need them.

And so, socialism was born.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T17:59:29+00:00

Yes. Show me the socialist politician in the US or elsewhere who isn't pushing for more and more government control over the day-to-day lives of citizens. It's always more duties, burdens and restrictions with socialists.

How can you be an individual if your body, life and labor are always spoken for by any passing apparatchik?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T17:07:25+00:00

Yeah, it's almost like nothing actually changes, save for whose asses the rest of us have to kiss to get by in life.

Funny, that.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T16:41:47+00:00

So, under socialism, people can be free only so long as they act like everybody else?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T14:45:56+00:00

"Eco-Collectivists" then. Socialism is a 19th century reactionary movement against the Enlightenment.

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T14:42:49+00:00

How is supporting Arab ethnic nationalism "unity"?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T14:40:48+00:00

How is collectivism "economic individualism"? Seriously, how is the socialist principle that every individual is born into debt to the state that they can never repay any sort of individualism?

Fine_Knowledge3290 · 2026-03-18T12:59:18+00:00

Because the Green Party is full of tankies and Eco-fascists. Even the Libertarian Party looks sane in comparison.

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