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OceanSlim | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Sounds like you're just a lazy bum who thinks he's entitled to a "living wage" for just existing and not providing anything to anyone else. ie You think your entitled to the labor of others.
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Lucky Kite | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It sounds like that to you because you are reductive and can't think properly.  I blame propaganda.
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Lucky Kite | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 No.  Just no.
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Lucky Kite | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If children are going hungry and shoeless (as millions around the world do) , is that because THEY are lazy bums?

Capitalism fails when it fails children. It fails humanity.  I don't care about your financial arguments, Children shouldn't go hungry because of a system  they were born into that selfish adults obsessed with wealth have failed to address.
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OceanSlim | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You realize the poorest people in CaPiTAlIsT USA are far richer than the vast majority of the rest of the world right? Our poorest people are still in the top 1% on a global scale.
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Lucky Kite | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what does this have to do with my question?  poor avoidance.
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OceanSlim | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The point is that children DONT go hungry in capitalist systems...
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Lucky Kite | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You are delusional. You must speak from a place of great wealth and privilege.  No wonder you blind to the ills of capitalism.