Like Slavery, Apartheid and Racism, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and i
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Like Slavery, Apartheid and Racism, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
~ Nelson Mandela
~ Born 18 July 1918 Mvezo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now Eastern Cape)
~ Died5 December 2013 Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
Like Slavery, Apartheid and Racism, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
~ Nelson Mandela
~ Born 18 July 1918 Mvezo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now Eastern Cape)
~ Died5 December 2013 Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
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Ideally we should have the intelligence to overcome poverty, but greed runs rampant all over the world.
To get out of poverty, one must
(1) want to get out of poverty
(2) believe they can get out of poverty
(3) make a plan to get out of poverty and implement it.
It's been done many times.
In modern upper-income civilization, we have a reasonable shot of living into our ninth decade and not dying of poverty, preventable infectious disease, or violence. Our ancestors would have sucked a mile of dicks for that.
Capitalism and Enlightenment Democracy have lifted more people out of poverty than any other notions in history.
SJG
And the Horatio Alger Myth, pulling yourself up by your own boot straps, is what keeps people subservient.
SJG
Capitalism would not last 10 minutes without these.
And it is in the service of Capitalism that Gavin Newsom want to use courts and the psychiatric system to brand, intern, and medicate the homeless.
SJG
You can debate how much of a social safety net backstops it, but even Scandinavia prides itself on free markets.
Without capitalism, you wouldn't have an internet to bitch about it.
China was emerging from feudalism.
SJG
Baloney. Throughout nature there are winners and losers. Animals that find mates and those that don't. Those that win the battle for food and those that don't. Those that hold territory and those that are chased off or killed.
In its purest form, capitalism is probably the closest you'll find to the most natural economic system. But the version we practice is hardly pure. We provide so much social netting in the forms of food, housing, healthcare and other assistance that we have created a dependency class. If only the losing animals you'd find in nature were as fat as those who reside forever on our welfare rolls. 😉
And this is why I say that today, minority groups that are facing systemic denigration need to adopt the tactics of the Irish Republican Army and start making some corpses.
SJG
There is no such thing as a fair system out there. Capitalism is the closest thing to it as it abhors government corruption and control, leaving people largely able to maximize their individual potentials. There is a reason why, in so many Socialist/Communist countries, the richest people are those who control the levers of government power.
But Ok, don't let me interrupt the ridiculous platitudes about "change" and "evolution" and "systematic denigration" and the other goofy victim mentality nonsense that some on here want to blame for their own failure to thrive in a system that embraces and rewards talent, vision and hard work.
“There is no such thing as a fair system out there.
Capitalism is not even the closest thing to it despite its ridiculous claims that it abhors government corruption and control, leaving people largely unaable to maximize their individual potentials.
There is a reason why, in so many Capitals/Socialist/Communist/etc-its countries, the richest people are those who control the levers of government power.”
TIFFY you are welcome.
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
~ Awards:
~ Fritt Ord Award (2019)
~ Rachel Carson Prize (2019)
~ Ambassador of Conscience Award (2019)
~ Right Livelihood Award (2019)
~ International Children's Peace Prize (2019)
~ Time Person of the Year (2019)
~ Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2020)
Name another system where I could start a business in my 30s from my bedroom with no licensing requirements, no bribes to government officials and otherwise completely unencumbered from competing with the largest firms in my industry.
Capitalism is the ultimate freedom for those who are capable and the ultimate enemy for those who are weak and stupid. But hey, that's OK, the world needs ditch diggers too.
@rickdugan
“There is no such thing as a fair system out there.” that is true.
The so-called founding fathers were paranoid hypocrites and ungrateful malcontents men that shifted authority and lawmaking, from the king to private potentates and their own elected/selected “accountable” democratic officials (puppets)
Feudalism was a social system that classified people based on their birth, wealth, and ancestry...
The feudal system is live and well in England with the King and Queen.
In America today, this type of social class system still exists, as a Corporate Feudal system with a Corporate elite, Bankers, Politicians, Celebrities, etc.
We still have the nobility, who are now the CEOs of corporations who lobby “our” politicians to work for them, not the people.
The peasants work under the rule of the King and lords/Corporations and they get paid a small amount in return.
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The peasants in England never owned their own property. Just like peasants in America who have to take a mortgage to have a place to live or have to rent from a LANDLORD.
In Capitalist America the majority of people belong to the lowest caste, laborers bound under the feudal/capitalist system to work on his lord's/patron’s estate/industry...
Only they are made to believe that they can one day become the billionaires a one in a billion chance if they play by the rules.
Behind every fortune there is a crime, the numbers don’t lie, things don’t add up, if they were to play by the rules.
That believe, the American Dream (a fairy tale about Cinderellas) is what allows this system to continue.
Thee fanaticism and bigotry of our own day in America are essentially political and religious.
“Men will continue to commit atrocities,” Voltaire wrote, “as long as they continue to believe absurdities.”
Could any sentence be more pertinent to what is happening in America today and through its history of fairytales, disillusions and denial?
You're not going to change anything here so why are you here? Your fatherland beckons, why aren't you there?
I know, it's because you're a cocksucking troll that just wants to agitate people with your shit stirring.
Speaking of cocksucking, how's your dick pic collection going? I suppose you're dissatisfied with it, that would explain your homo ass trolling a hetro strip club website.
You wrote and I quote:
“Progressives have been mentally ill children since Day one.”
Who are those “progressives”, you mentioned, among the so-called founding fathers “from day one”?
A fitting quote of the day!
You and everyone know that the undeniable truth is that this country was founded by those you call, and I quote “the glorious founding fathers who gave us a wonderful country”, who where nothing but British paranoid hypocrites and ungrateful malcontents slave owners, killers of natives, women and children..
What was their cherished Declaration of Independence but empty political posturing?
The separation from Great Britain was done to justify the genocide committed against Native Americans and preserve slavery of African Americans.
-P.J O'Rourke
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
~ Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
~ Born: 3rd January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden
~ Occupation: Student, environmental activist
Awards:
~ Fritt Ord Award (2019)
~ Rachel Carson Prize (2019)
~ Ambassador of Conscience Award (2019)
~ Right Livelihood Award (2019)
~ International Children's Peace Prize (2019)
~ Time Person of the Year (2019)
~ Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity (2020)
gen·o·cide
noun
1. the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
Leaders of the U.S. government openly claimed in the 1860’s that the skin of Indians could be peeled off to make tall boots,that Indians must be annihilated or driven to places that no one would go, that Indians had to be wiped out swiftly, and that only dead Indians are good Indians.
American soldiers saw the slaughter of Indians as natural, even an honor, and would not rest until they were all killed.
Similar hate rhetoric and atrocities abound, and are well documented in many Native American extermination monographs.
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