Oddbean

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 The cultural struggle against socialism is extremely difficult.

In capitalism you have to tell people to make a living for themselves without state aid.

The promise is that they will have a more prosperous nation.

In socialism you offer people help so that they can live.

The promise is that they will have a more just nation.

In capitalism you receive no initial gift, in socialism you receive an initial gift.

The scientific method knows which of the two options is valid, but human egoism does not.

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 Thinking the real problem is centralized authority regardless the Ism, and thus the solution is decentralization.

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 We should continue cultural battle

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 I hope in the future we will have many smaller states and people will be able to choose where they want to be taxed. I think it will be pretty obvious which system actually works better.

In my personal experience, most socialist simply can't understand economic thinking. They do not understand working for profit or how it can have a positive impact on society, they need to micromanage everything. Socialism is the ultimate act of intellectual masturbation.

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 Totally agree

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 Okay but the problem is that money centralizes into the hands of guys who use violence and lies that leads to massive inequality. Look at the global south they're extremely poor compared to the global north because Billionaires are constantly interfering in their countries organizing coups to take office and claim the resources.

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 It may be a deeper issue than ego. I don’t think there is a creature on the planet that doesn’t want the most reward for the least amount of energy expenditure.

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