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[genuineoriginal]

Trickle down capitalism just makes the rich richer and the poor poorer

"Trickle down" is the wrong metaphor for capitalism.

The "invisible hand" is the metaphor for capitalism that makes the rich richer and the poor richer.

Invisible Hand Invisible hand is a metaphor for how, in a free market economy, self-interested individuals operate through a system of mutual interdependence to promote the general benefit of society at large. It was introduced by Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith in his book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776). The invisible hand metaphor distills two critical ideas. First, voluntary trades in a free market produce unintentional and widespread benefits. Second, these benefits are greater than those of a regulated, planned economy. Each free exchange creates signals about which goods and services are valuable and how difficult they are to bring to market. These signals, captured in the price system, spontaneously direct competing consumers, producers, distributors and intermediaries — each pursuing their individual plans — to fulfill the needs and desires of others.

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Socialism, on the other hand, is the system of making the rich poorer and preventing the poor from getting any richer.

 

[ok doser]

"Trickle down" is the wrong metaphor for capitalism.

it suggests a finite amount of wealth and doesn't account for wealth generation by innovation or transformation of existing assets

 

[genuineoriginal]

it suggests a finite amount of wealth and doesn't account for wealth generation by innovation or transformation of existing assets

Correct.
That kind of wealth generation is responsible for the United States of America having the highest living standard in the world during the decades when America was great.

Standard of living in the United States The standard of living in the United States is high by the standards that most economists use, and for many decades throughout the 20th century, the United States was recognized as having the highest standard of living in the world.​

That is why we need to Make America Great Again.

 

[ok doser]

That is why we need to Make America Great Again.

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regardless of how many insane liberals' minds it destroys :banana:

 

[Crucifer]

He is an NPC

Spoiler

An Npc (non playable character) is a person who is 'programmed' to act a certain way according to a controlled narrative.

That could go for anybody who basically just doesn't think for themselves- you're all being the Npcs calling everything 'communism' and being some shill for your capitalist overlords. Really just goes back to the Catholic student debate where both sides of it exemplified exactly that.

 

[genuineoriginal]

An Npc (non playable character) is a person who is 'programmed' to act a certain way according to a preset of ideas.

That could go for anybody who basically just doesn't think for themselves- you're all being the Npcs calling everything 'communism' and being some shill for your capitalist overlords. Really just goes back to the Catholic student debate where both sides of it exemplified exactly that.

Once again you prove that you are just an NPC.

Spoiler

The leftist liberals can't understand that conservatives actually think for themselves and don't follow a script the way that the leftist liberals do.

 

[ok doser]

... you're all being the Npcs calling everything 'communism' ...

:freak:

you must be thinking of some other website :idunno:

 

[Crucifer]

:freak:

you must be thinking of some other website :idunno:

Nah, it's this one. Everything-you-don't-like-is-communism-ism :chuckle:
If you were talking to someone you'd think you could get over on it with you'd be shouting Marxism every post.

In fact, Marx has already been brought up. So has Hitler and Mussolini.
Just the same old same old.

 

[drbrumley]

That about sums it up..View attachment 26707

 

[Crucifer]

That about sums it up..View attachment 26707

>I noted that a socialist capitalism is what the country needs and will inevitably occur out of necessity.
>You all keep talking about pure socialism not working in taco stands for countries

You don't really have a good argument, you just have a gigantic red herring mixed with a bit of beating straw men and forcing the same narrative.
Let's talk about the cons of capitalism that can be fixed with socialist ideas and watch you all make excuse after excuse after excuse defending why those immoral attributes are needed

 

[ok doser]

Everything-you-don't-like-is-communism-ism :chuckle:

i don't like asparagus favored ice cream, but i don't think it's communism :idunno:

 

[Crucifer]

Go take your antisemitism to your prefered neo-Nazi friendly website and stop spreading your hate on this one.

Everything is 'Antisemetic' to some of you. Ben Stein worships capitalism in a way that makes even those like yourself seem socialist, and consistently relates things to Hitler and Stalin. Because he's a Jew.
I have every right to point out the obvious with that one, maybe you should try not using such examples :idunno:

And also, am I the only person on Earth who is aware the Muslims are Semites too? Seriously, type 'semite' in Google. Save yourself a thousand words.
In reality you're all Antisemitic, not me.

 

[The Berean]

Not all Muslims are Semites. Arabs are Semites. But Indonesian Muslims and Nigerian Muslims for example are not Semites. Iranians today who are historically Persians are not Semites. Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was not a Semite. The Irish guy I met in college who converted to Islam was not to a Semite either.

 

[genuineoriginal]

>I noted that a socialist capitalism is what the country needs and will inevitably occur out of necessity.
>You all keep talking about pure socialism not working in taco stands for countries

You don't really have a good argument, you just have a gigantic red herring mixed with a bit of beating straw men and forcing the same narrative.

So far, your arguments for socialism:

• it hasn't really been tried yet
• the 1% won't pay the 99%'s fair share

You missed the main reason socialism won't work.

 

[genuineoriginal]

And also, am I the only person on Earth who is aware the Muslims are Semites too? Seriously, type 'semite' in Google. Save yourself a thousand words.

Muslims are not Semites.

Only the Muslim Arabs are Semites, but most Muslims are not Arabs

Islam and ethnic identity “Arab” and “Muslim” are not synonymous terms. Muslims are followers of the religion of Islam. Arabs are an ethno-linguistic group of people, most of whom are Muslim in religion but some of whom are not. Their origins lie in the Arabian Peninsula, but they burst into the larger world in the seventh and eighth centuries with the dramatic conquests that followed the death of Muhammad in AD 632. In the Middle East itself, the Persians (Iranians), the Kurds, and the Turks are all majority-Muslim people groups, but none of them regard themselves as Arabs and they do not speak Arabic. Likewise, the largest Muslim populations in the world are all in non-Arabic speaking countries: Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, among others. The majority of Muslims in the world are not Arabic in language or ethnic identity.

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[ok doser]

Muslims are not Semites.

Only the Muslim Arabs are Semites, but most Muslims are not Arabs

Islam and ethnic identity “Arab” and “Muslim” are not synonymous terms. Muslims are followers of the religion of Islam. Arabs are an ethno-linguistic group of people, most of whom are Muslim in religion but some of whom are not. Their origins lie in the Arabian Peninsula, but they burst into the larger world in the seventh and eighth centuries with the dramatic conquests that followed the death of Muhammad in AD 632. In the Middle East itself, the Persians (Iranians), the Kurds, and the Turks are all majority-Muslim people groups, but none of them regard themselves as Arabs and they do not speak Arabic. Likewise, the largest Muslim populations in the world are all in non-Arabic speaking countries: Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, among others. The majority of Muslims in the world are not Arabic in language or ethnic identity.

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i suppose the arab Christians are Semites as well :idunno:

and arab Buddhists, and arab Sikhs and arab Hindus....

 

[Crucifer]

Muslims are not Semites.

Only the Muslim Arabs are Semites, but most Muslims are not Arabs

Well in that case most Jews aren't Semites either.
Dunno if noticed, but they're all white and do not speak a Semitic language :chuckle:

Regardless, Islam is from Ishmael and Israel is from Isaac. They are de facto Semitic.
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You want to call me something because I don't unconditionally defend the one's you like while you bash the ones that you don't?

'Antisemitism' is a loaded, manipulative word and you all use it at your first opportunity and frankly I'm tired of it. You can just can it- get out of my face with that nonsense.

 

[genuineoriginal]

Well in that case most Jews aren't Semites either.

'Antisemitism' is a loaded, manipulative word and you all use it at your first opportunity and frankly I'm tired of it. You can just can it- get out of my face with that nonsense.

Antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. The root word Semite gives the false impression that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people, e.g., including Arabs and Assyrians. The compound word antisemite was popularized in Germany in 1879[7] as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"), and this has been its common use since then. The United States Department of State states that "while there is no universally accepted definition, there is a generally clear understanding of what the term encompasses." For the purposes of its 2005 Report on Global Anti-Semitism, the term was considered to mean "hatred toward Jews—individually and as a group—that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and/or ethnicity." In 2005, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (now Fundamental Rights Agency), then an agency of the European Union, developed a more detailed working definition, which states: "Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."

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[Crucifer]

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

It was a word developed during a time when most people thought of Islam as magic carpets and genies. It's a word those like yourself during the time developed, it has no real good origin.

You admitted that Arabs are Semites,trivialized it as if the Islamic capital isn't Saudi ARABIA, and are now just contradicting that altogether playing semantics.

You're just trying to get over on the fact that you're a hypocrite, case closed.

 

[genuineoriginal]

You admitted that Arabs are Semites

Antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. The root word Semite gives the false impression that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people, e.g., including Arabs and Assyrians.

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You're just making things up to try and get over on the fact that you're a hypocrite, case closed.

You are projecting, again.

Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.

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