Octavian_Augustus
L'État, c'est moi
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Capitalism is great and communism is awful.
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nigga is captain obviousCapitalism is great and communism is awful.
No shitUnder socialism-communism, the money is distributed more evenly
No shit
Imagine being an engineer and you see a dishwasher earn similar to you
This has never actually happened in the history of the world. Any attempt to Communism just turns into totalitarianism. Millions get killed. It's terrible.Under socialism-communism, the money is distributed more evenly
it's amazinThis has never actually happened in the history of the world. Any attempt to Communism just turns into totalitarianism. Millions get killed. It's terrible.
Capitalism is great and communism is awful.
No shit
Imagine being an engineer and you see a dishwasher earn similar to you
This has never actually happened in the history of the world. Any attempt to Communism just turns into totalitarianism. Millions get killed. It's terrible.
it's amazin
soviet union had the superior economy
what happened to muh NHSmedical bills
lol it’s certainly not freewhat happened to muh NHS
UK is basically communism at this point.
Even on a good £60,000 a year salary
When you count tax, VAT on products, motor tax, property tax, electricity bills/tax, television tax, petrol/diesel tax, council tax, medical bills, alcohol tax, rent, food, insurance tax, customs taxes, shipping tax.
Honestly your lucky to even scrape £5,000 for leisure a year
Communism is only good for the absolute dregs of society. Everyone else is much better off under capitalism.Capitalism is great and communism is awful.
Capitalism mogs , u need victims to be a bossCapitalism is great and communism is awful.
Communism is only good for the absolute dregs of society. Everyone else is much better off under capitalism.
Capitalism mogs , u need victims to be a boss
Name me one place, in all human history, where Communism worked.Can you write something more than a slogan? You have a serious problem justifying your opinion
Name me one place, in all human history, where Communism worked.
high iq response nglIt is up to you to prove that communism is bad - you made the first claim, not me
That's in response to your assertion that Communism is good. So the burden of proof is on you.It is up to you to prove that communism is bad - you made the first claim, not me
That's in response to your assertion that Communism is good. So the burden of proof is on you.
Communism is only good for the absolute dregs of society. Everyone else is much better off under capitalism.
But, not to worry, I'll do it for you.
Let's compare Cuba, Venezuela, the Soviet Union and North Korea to Europe and America.
Are you gonna tell me with a straight face that you'd rather live in of the countries of the former? If you're answer is affirmative, then you must be destitute.
Again, would you rather live in any of the places that I described, all of which are/were Communist. Don't give me your pie-in-the-sky academic theory. I'm giving you real-world examples.This is where you answered @Octavian_Augustus, not me - this is where it all started
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A person who has guaranteed accommodation, education and health care is richer than a person who has to pay for all this. In the USA, you can become destitute due to illness, not to mention how difficult it is on the housing market
Again, would you rather live in any of the places that I described, all of which are/were Communist. Don't give me your pie-in-the-sky academic theory. I'm giving you real-world examples.
You are not trained in science and it shows. Trying to twist the proof of burden but failing.It is up to you to prove that communism is bad - you made the first claim, not me
Every society needs to operate within an hierarchy I thought communism was good but no it’s not.That's why the US had to bring its democracy to the rest of the world with bombs, dropping them on schools and hospitals on every country that resisted their imperialism:
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Socialism is not about equality of results, but about equality of opportunity.
You were told this by the same people who claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (a made up excuse for war)
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You are not trained in science and it shows. Trying to twist the proof of burden but failing.
The null hypothesis is that communism is not superior unless proven otherwise. So far the data you have presented do not reject the null hypothesis.
Every society needs to operate within an hierarchy
Class conflict isn’t the root cause of all conflict.
Cultural Conflict is far stronger than “Class” Conflict
There's no such thing as a "classless society". It's a naive, Utopian dream.1. They were not communist because communism is a classless society, the final stage of socialism where states cease to exist. The countries you mentioned are at best on the road to communism.
2. It's crazy to compare countries with completely different history and geography. It is appropriate to compare, for example, Cuba with Haiti, they have a similar past and location, but one of these countries has chosen a different path than capitalism.
There's no such thing as a "classless society". It's a naive, Utopian dream.
People are inherently different from each other, and have varying abilities. Capitalism--although far from perfect--reflects that, and allows people to pursue their potential. If you try to force a "classless society" on people, who are vastly different from one another, you're just going to create a huge black market that will circumvent the unnatural system you imposed.
If anything socialism is oppression of the productive and clever by the lazy and needy.There's no such thing as a "classless society". It's a naive, Utopian dream.
People are inherently different from each other, and have varying abilities. Capitalism--although far from perfect--reflects that, and allows people to pursue their potential. If you try to force a "classless society" on people, who are vastly different from one another, you're just going to create a huge black market that will circumvent the unnatural system you imposed.
If anything socialism is oppression of the productive and clever by the lazy and needy.
Lol where's your proof of these perfect egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies. They most likely had pecking orders based on who was the most productive, strong, or useful.This has already been achieved. In prehistory. The example is hunter-gatherer societies.
In the communist primitive society, work was done by everyone who was capable of it, and its fruits - food obtained through hunting and gathering - were available to the entire community.
There was no private property and the means of production (tools, buildings, etc.) were publicly owned. Now humanity is heading back to communism, but with the difference that it is technologically advanced.
While it is true that no modern society has achieved a stateless, classless society on the scale of prehistoric communism, it serves as evidence that human societies have been able to organize themselves around principles of cooperation and mutual aid.
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It’s completely illogical for everyone to be on the same base level what’s the point of me pursuing entrepreneurship if there’s no monetary incentive to it? There’s no point in me pursuing engineering if there were no monetary incentive. Not to mention that communism only takes on class hierarchy and not other hierarchies like looks, status and so on JFL the society would literally just break on itself as those who exceed at certain things will eventually demand to be compensated more and the peasants will support them.Slogans. I'm waiting for you to provide arguments for these claims
Private owners and investors who in many cases got their capital through hard work. Fine you can hate on the outlier who inherits billions of dollars, but what irks me is that socialists also tear down those who are dutiful, hard-working, and frugal and who just happen to have more as a result of that work ethic. They can go fuck themselves, needy fucks.You are confusing socialism with capitalism. It is in capitalism that private owners do little and want to become even richer in order to do nothing.
Lol where's your proof of these perfect egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies. They most likely had pecking orders based on who was the most productive, strong, or useful.
Even wild animals have hierarchies within their groups. Looks at wolves, hyenas etc. Those at the top of the pecking order eat first.
It's not just human nature, but living being nature.
Private owners and investors who in many cases got their capital through hard work. Fine you can hate on the outlier who inherits billions of dollars, but what irks me is that socialists also tear down those who are dutiful, hard-working, and frugal and who just happen to have more as a result of that work ethic. They can go fuck themselves, needy fucks.
There are similarities. Those similarities arise from the simple fact that life needs to organize itself per hierarchies to solve tasks effectively and survive.I recommend reading the works of anthropologist Lewis Morgan.
What distinguishes us from other animals is that we are self-aware and intelligent forms of life - there is no point in imitating wolves or hyenas, humans aren't canids.
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Nope. Investors provide the capital, organization, business planning, and eat the downside. That's huge. It's not paratism. You have to give credit where credit is due. you're full of shit.Bosses steal surplus value from workers. This is what they live off of.
It's parasitism
That’s idealNo shit
Imagine being an engineer and you see a dishwasher earn similar to you
roidfreakI don’t need to imagine this in UK
There are similarities. Those similarities arise from the simple fact that life needs to organize itself per hierarchies to solve tasks effectively and survive.
Also ironic calling out my appeal to nature when you did exactly the same thing earlier.
Nope. Investors provide the capital, organization, business planning, and eat the downside. That's huge. It's not paratism. You have to give credit where credit is due. you're full of shit.
The valet parking cars at the Ritz can only park 15 cars an hour because of the fact there's a Ritz hotel there, and because the Ritz brand has been built up over a hundred years. He doesn't deserve all the value of his work.
It’s completely illogical for everyone to be on the same base level what’s the point of me pursuing entrepreneurship if there’s no monetary incentive to it? There’s no point in me pursuing engineering if there were no monetary incentive. Not to mention that communism only takes on class hierarchy and not other hierarchies like looks, status and so on JFL the society would literally just break on itself as those who exceed at certain things will eventually demand to be compensated more and the peasants will support them.
Cultural conflict you think wars like the revolutionary war in America began because of class conflict and not because the Americans wanted to do away with the feudal European aristocratic system? Inb4 you say Muh it’s class conflict no the Americans didn’t want to dethrone the king they wanted a meritocracy they wanted people best suited for the roles making decisions people who have worked for that role.
The liberal west attempts to subjugate the entire world into its cultural norms while China does the same. The Roman Empire collapsed thanks to the rise of Judeo-Christianity and the death of ancestral worship. Do you think europe would have fell into a dark age if the romans elite studied their predecessors? No Ofc not lmao europe had a whole intellectual revival in 15th century just because they started studying their pagan predecessors. 2 of the biggest events in the western world neither caused or motivated by class conflict instead it was the evolution and adaption of cultural beliefs
That's because they were in a desperate state and their very survival depended on banding together. They had no choice. We're talking about a modern, affluent society here, unless affluence isn't your goal, and you want to revert to a poor, desperate condition.This has already been achieved. In prehistory. The example is hunter-gatherer societies.
In the communist primitive society, work was done by everyone who was capable of it, and its fruits - food obtained through hunting and gathering - were available to the entire community.
There was no private property and the means of production (tools, buildings, etc.) were publicly owned. Now humanity is heading back to communism, but with the difference that it is technologically advanced.
While it is true that no modern society has achieved a stateless, classless society on the scale of prehistoric communism, it serves as evidence that human societies have been able to organize themselves around principles of cooperation and mutual aid.
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That's because they were in a desperate state and their very survival depended on banding together. They had no choice. We're talking about a modern, affluent society here, unless affluence isn't your goal, and you want to revert to a poor, desperate condition.
That's largely because Scandinavian countries have small, docile and homogeneous populations. That wouldn't work as well in the United States (And, by the way, those are not Communist countries).Look at which capitalist countries have the best quality of life. We are talking about the social democratic ones (often wrongly called socialist), i.e. mainly the Scandinavian countries. This just shows that the less capitalism in the economy, the better - especially if you live in a country that does not belong to the former colonial powers, then it is best to adopt a protectionist policy.
That's largely because Scandinavian countries have small, docile and homogeneous populations. That wouldn't work as well in the United States (And, by the way, those are not Communist countries).
It's funny how the people calling for "higher tax rates" are always the ones with the least amount of money to lose. Bet you would be singing a different song, if you actually had assets, wouldn't you, Lord Arthur?
Eisenhower proved higher tax rates could work -https://apnews.com/article/2184e9f18f6f4acca1ed007bdcdca818
It's funny how the people calling for "higher tax rates" are always the ones with the least amount of money to lose. Bet you would be singing a different song, if you actually had assets, wouldn't you, Lord Arthur?
And I am acting in my own best interest, which happens to also be in the best interest of the vast majority of people.I have said from the very beginning that each class acts in its own interest. I see no reasons to defend the small group of businessmen visiting Epstein's island - I am part of the working class
And I am acting in my own best interest, which happens to also be in the best interest of the vast majority of people.