Are you okay, Andy?
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I get where you’re coming from, but you know my preferred tactics:
And they are tactics.
I argue for non-violent resistance because I think that this is the method most likely to succeed, given the existing balance of forces. If I thought that the world could be fixed with a handful of bombs and bullets, I’d have already done it.
But it can’t be fixed that way; the world is not that simple. The problem is much more difficult than that.
It’s systemic, not individual; shoot one rich bastard and another rises in his place.
I believe that they can be beaten. But the power is in the people; that’s where change comes from.
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This is not bad. The question is about whether the banker position should move one to the left while the former banker goes directly to Jail.
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I’ve already posted this elsewhere, but this thread seems like an appropriate spot for it as well:
Following on from this:
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…which created an entertaining Twitterstorm culminating in this:
We now have this:
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Seize the means of production… with lawyers.
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“I was a little surprised that Queen Elizabeth would take the risk of using offshore structures. I would have thought that patriotism and duty to country would have precluded that, but it does reinforce my observation since the Panama Papers that above a certain level of wealth, everybody does this.”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/11/paradise-papers-wealth-managers-brooke-harrington-interview
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Seems to fit best here:
Read both the article and John Rogers’ thread.
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Does wealth and power require magic to make it legitimate?
https://www.tor.com/2017/12/13/power-is-money-in-sandersons-cosmere/
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I sent that to a friend saying that the location was deeply ironic - an out of touch royal buying the worlds most expensive house near Versailles.
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I can’t believe I missed this thread.
Anyways, I’m a capitalist but on the left-most fringe of what could be considered capitalist still which is why I normally say I’m a true centrist. I believe in centralized and heavily regulated needs in tune with a country’s development blah blah blah. Here are the things I have said that seem to cause physical pain to other “normal” people in the US:
- The free market is a fundamentally flawed concept
- The US is not #1 in most things
- Federal spending isn’t out of control it’s unbalanced
- Tax law means nothing of it isn’t lowering the financial burden of necessities to a household
- The military is the best socialist system our country has had, and we should stop pirating personnel for the profit of contractors
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To be fair the actual middle class does cap out over $250K a year in income.
The size of the middle class income span is terrifying, but the actual extremity of the rich (top 15% wealth, top 1% income) is like a mind-melting eldritch thing peering from the abyss.
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I’ve been reading Oathbringer, and I thought about this theme. Dun spheres are worth much less than infused spheres now, but will regain value in the next highstorm. So exchanging them is somewhat like loaning or borrowing money, but the borrower isn’t the one paying interest. And interest rates fluctuate with the seasons. Still, someone in the business of exchanging charged spheres for dun at a favorable rate could certainly act as a rentier and accumulate quite a lot of wealth.
And now a word from the Brookings Institute…
It’s unintentionally hilarious, one bubble from one side of the pond telling a bubble on the other side of the pond how to bubble properly.
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