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  • C CaptainSeeSharp

    That what socialism does. It breeds domesticated degenerate sheep

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    Christian Graus
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    Perhaps. I mean, I would agree that in this case, we have too much socialism. Your problem is typically that you assume that anything that isn't the opposite of socialism has to be bad, and that all capitalism is good, taken to whatever extreme possible.

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      Perhaps. I mean, I would agree that in this case, we have too much socialism. Your problem is typically that you assume that anything that isn't the opposite of socialism has to be bad, and that all capitalism is good, taken to whatever extreme possible.

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      Liberty, property rights, and free-markets is the only system that works. It not only works, it allows society to thrive.

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      • C CaptainSeeSharp

        Dalek Dave wrote:

        I would abolish it and put a Tax on having children

        So you want the family will have a lower standard of living? What happens if the parents don't pay the tax on their children?

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        Then the children are taken away, and the parents are sent to forced labour camps.

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        • C CaptainSeeSharp

          Liberty, property rights, and free-markets is the only system that works. It not only works, it allows society to thrive.

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          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

          Liberty, property rights, and free-markets is the only system that works.

          Yes, those elements need to exist, I agree. However, a completely free market only works for the chosen few. You forget that the winners write history. No-one cared about the people dying and being oppressed by that system.

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          • C Christian Graus

            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

            Liberty, property rights, and free-markets is the only system that works.

            Yes, those elements need to exist, I agree. However, a completely free market only works for the chosen few. You forget that the winners write history. No-one cared about the people dying and being oppressed by that system.

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            Christian Graus wrote:

            However, a completely free market only works for the chosen few.

            You have it backwards, the chosen few win in a rigged economy. There are still laws in a free-market. You cannot falsely advertise, steal, break contracts, kill people. In a free-market, with liberty and property rights, you have the perfect balance.

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            • C CaptainSeeSharp

              Christian Graus wrote:

              However, a completely free market only works for the chosen few.

              You have it backwards, the chosen few win in a rigged economy. There are still laws in a free-market. You cannot falsely advertise, steal, break contracts, kill people. In a free-market, with liberty and property rights, you have the perfect balance.

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              CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

              You have it backwards, the chosen few win in a rigged economy.

              If the economy is too rigged, then perhaps, to some degree. My point is, there are clear losers in a pure capitalistic system, and they are the poor and under privileged. That is plainly true, from history.

              CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

              There are still laws in a free-market. You cannot falsely advertise, steal, break contracts, kill people. In a free-market, with liberty and property rights, you have the perfect balance.

              None of this stops companies from taking advantage of people, and creating a system that the poor cannot escape, where their lives are cut short and rendered not worth living.

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              • C Christian Graus

                CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                You have it backwards, the chosen few win in a rigged economy.

                If the economy is too rigged, then perhaps, to some degree. My point is, there are clear losers in a pure capitalistic system, and they are the poor and under privileged. That is plainly true, from history.

                CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                There are still laws in a free-market. You cannot falsely advertise, steal, break contracts, kill people. In a free-market, with liberty and property rights, you have the perfect balance.

                None of this stops companies from taking advantage of people, and creating a system that the poor cannot escape, where their lives are cut short and rendered not worth living.

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                Christian Graus wrote:

                there are clear losers in a pure capitalistic system

                As there should be.

                Christian Graus wrote:

                and they are the poor and under privileged

                The poor can get a job, and better their lot so their children and grandchildren can be "privileged".

                Christian Graus wrote:

                None of this stops companies from taking advantage of people

                Taking advantage of cheap labor and low prices is a good thing.

                Christian Graus wrote:

                and creating a system that the poor cannot escape, where their lives are cut short and rendered not worth living.

                This is just a your made up bullshit.

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                • C CaptainSeeSharp

                  Christian Graus wrote:

                  there are clear losers in a pure capitalistic system

                  As there should be.

                  Christian Graus wrote:

                  and they are the poor and under privileged

                  The poor can get a job, and better their lot so their children and grandchildren can be "privileged".

                  Christian Graus wrote:

                  None of this stops companies from taking advantage of people

                  Taking advantage of cheap labor and low prices is a good thing.

                  Christian Graus wrote:

                  and creating a system that the poor cannot escape, where their lives are cut short and rendered not worth living.

                  This is just a your made up bullshit.

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                  CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                  As there should be.

                  Well, I don't expect everyone to have an equal lifestyle. I just think that my awesome lifestyle should not be built on pushing down my cost of living, by not paying the people who provide me with goods and services, enough to live on. Capitalism does not care about that.

                  CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                  The poor can get a job, and better their lot so their children and grandchildren can be "privileged".

                  This is a fantasy. If the poor are not given access to free education, and if they spend all their time trying to make enough money to stay alive, there's really no chance for the kids to get out of that system.

                  CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                  Taking advantage of cheap labor and low prices is a good thing.

                  For the companies and the consumers, yes. You've shown many times that you don't care who suffers for you to get ahead. That's the difference between us. The irony is, I'm more successful than you could ever hope to be.

                  CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                  This is just a your made up bullsh*t.

                  And this sort of talk is how you hide from facts that don't suit you.

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                  • C Christian Graus

                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                    As there should be.

                    Well, I don't expect everyone to have an equal lifestyle. I just think that my awesome lifestyle should not be built on pushing down my cost of living, by not paying the people who provide me with goods and services, enough to live on. Capitalism does not care about that.

                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                    The poor can get a job, and better their lot so their children and grandchildren can be "privileged".

                    This is a fantasy. If the poor are not given access to free education, and if they spend all their time trying to make enough money to stay alive, there's really no chance for the kids to get out of that system.

                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                    Taking advantage of cheap labor and low prices is a good thing.

                    For the companies and the consumers, yes. You've shown many times that you don't care who suffers for you to get ahead. That's the difference between us. The irony is, I'm more successful than you could ever hope to be.

                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                    This is just a your made up bullsh*t.

                    And this sort of talk is how you hide from facts that don't suit you.

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                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    not paying the people who provide me with goods and services, enough to live on. Capitalism does not care about that.

                    Guess who are also capitalists, out to make as much money as they can? Regular workers.

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    If the poor are not given access to free education, and if they spend all their time trying to make enough money to stay alive, there's really no chance for the kids to get out of that system.

                    Free government education is just as bad or worse as no education. Look at all these welfare parents, living in wretched poverty, and stupider than a rock. In a free-market system, those people would be out to make a buck, and they would be developing necessary skills because THEY HAVE TO.

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    For the companies and the consumers, yes.

                    And that leaves out nobody, for everyone is a consumer

                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    And this sort of talk is how you hide from facts that don't suit you.

                    Except when you do it of course :rolleyes:

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                      RichardM1 wrote:

                      You are paying for the hope that the kids will have a real one.

                      That's a hell of a poor investment. Either way, I am creating an incentive for them to live dead end lives, being bad mothers, chain smoking and watching TV while their kids light fires and terrorise the neighbourhood.

                      RichardM1 wrote:

                      There is no system that can not be gamed.

                      A system that says you have to pay for your own mistakes, can't be gamed.

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                      Christian Graus wrote:

                      That's a hell of a poor investment.

                      Yes, it is, but it has a slightly better outcome than not doing it. I don't see how you can be so worried about someone taking your money, and so cavalier about someone taking my guns. They are both in the name of a better society, the only difference is no one is taking your guns.

                      Christian Graus wrote:

                      A system that says you have to pay for your own mistakes, can't be gamed.

                      :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: You SHOULD go into stand up comedy! Every system can be gamed. In your system, it has to do with defining "your own mistakes".

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                        Christian Graus wrote:

                        not paying the people who provide me with goods and services, enough to live on. Capitalism does not care about that.

                        Guess who are also capitalists, out to make as much money as they can? Regular workers.

                        Christian Graus wrote:

                        If the poor are not given access to free education, and if they spend all their time trying to make enough money to stay alive, there's really no chance for the kids to get out of that system.

                        Free government education is just as bad or worse as no education. Look at all these welfare parents, living in wretched poverty, and stupider than a rock. In a free-market system, those people would be out to make a buck, and they would be developing necessary skills because THEY HAVE TO.

                        Christian Graus wrote:

                        For the companies and the consumers, yes.

                        And that leaves out nobody, for everyone is a consumer

                        Christian Graus wrote:

                        And this sort of talk is how you hide from facts that don't suit you.

                        Except when you do it of course :rolleyes:

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                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                        Guess who are also capitalists, out to make as much money as they can? Regular workers.

                        This sort of statement pretends that a guy with no real skills beyond manual labour can negotiate as an equal with Ford or BP. It's not the case.

                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                        Free government education is just as bad or worse as no education

                        Rubbish

                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                        Look at all these welfare parents, living in wretched poverty, and stupider than a rock.

                        Sure - some people are stupid. Take away the schools, that would make them smarter ?

                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                        In a free-market system, those people would be out to make a buck, and they would be developing necessary skills because THEY HAVE TO.

                        You say that like some people prefer to starve, and die. It might be true to a point, but only to a point.

                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                        And that leaves out nobody, for everyone is a consumer

                        That is just so stupid. Everyone WANTS to be a consumer, some people just don't have the money to participate, or, in a pure capitalist system, the wherewithall to ever get it.

                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                        Except when you do it of course Roll eyes

                        Like when ?

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                          Christian Graus wrote:

                          That's a hell of a poor investment.

                          Yes, it is, but it has a slightly better outcome than not doing it. I don't see how you can be so worried about someone taking your money, and so cavalier about someone taking my guns. They are both in the name of a better society, the only difference is no one is taking your guns.

                          Christian Graus wrote:

                          A system that says you have to pay for your own mistakes, can't be gamed.

                          :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: You SHOULD go into stand up comedy! Every system can be gamed. In your system, it has to do with defining "your own mistakes".

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                          RichardM1 wrote:

                          I don't see how you can be so worried about someone taking your money, and so cavalier about someone taking my guns.

                          Because money isn't used to kill people. Duh.

                          RichardM1 wrote:

                          They are both in the name of a better society, the only difference is no one is taking your guns

                          Well, I think that is BS.

                          RichardM1 wrote:

                          Every system can be gamed.

                          How can someone who is not paid to have children they can't afford, game the system ? There's nothing to game.

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                            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                            Guess who are also capitalists, out to make as much money as they can? Regular workers.

                            This sort of statement pretends that a guy with no real skills beyond manual labour can negotiate as an equal with Ford or BP. It's not the case.

                            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                            Free government education is just as bad or worse as no education

                            Rubbish

                            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                            Look at all these welfare parents, living in wretched poverty, and stupider than a rock.

                            Sure - some people are stupid. Take away the schools, that would make them smarter ?

                            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                            In a free-market system, those people would be out to make a buck, and they would be developing necessary skills because THEY HAVE TO.

                            You say that like some people prefer to starve, and die. It might be true to a point, but only to a point.

                            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                            And that leaves out nobody, for everyone is a consumer

                            That is just so stupid. Everyone WANTS to be a consumer, some people just don't have the money to participate, or, in a pure capitalist system, the wherewithall to ever get it.

                            CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                            Except when you do it of course Roll eyes

                            Like when ?

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                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            This sort of statement pretends that a guy with no real skills beyond manual labour can negotiate as an equal with Ford or BP. It's not the case.

                            No it does not, nor is it the case, I never said it was.

                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            Rubbish

                            You see, you have nothing to back up your case for big government.

                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            Sure - some people are stupid. Take away the schools, that would make them smarter ?

                            In a free market system, the government couldn't take away or take over schools. The government would have no say in private individual's schooling.

                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            You say that like some people prefer to starve, and die.

                            I did not say that. I said they will not prefer to starve and die, so they will have the incentive to do what is necessary to make a living.

                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            That is just so stupid. Everyone WANTS to be a consumer, some people just don't have the money to participate, or, in a pure capitalist system, the wherewithall to ever get it.

                            Everyone does want to be a consumer, and that is the drive for people to profit in some way or another. Either through sales, labor, or investments.

                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            Like when ?

                            Like now.

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                              Christian Graus wrote:

                              one way or another, we need to stop giving the people with the least to offer the gene pool incentive to breed at our cost.

                              Idiocracy Quite a prophetic movie We are really screwed.

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                              I like money.

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                              • C Christian Graus

                                RichardM1 wrote:

                                I don't see how you can be so worried about someone taking your money, and so cavalier about someone taking my guns.

                                Because money isn't used to kill people. Duh.

                                RichardM1 wrote:

                                They are both in the name of a better society, the only difference is no one is taking your guns

                                Well, I think that is BS.

                                RichardM1 wrote:

                                Every system can be gamed.

                                How can someone who is not paid to have children they can't afford, game the system ? There's nothing to game.

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                                Christian Graus wrote:

                                Because money isn't used to kill people. Duh.

                                Blatantly false. Duh.

                                Christian Graus wrote:

                                Well, I think that is BS.

                                So taking guns is in the name of a better society, but feeding children isn't? I guess if they starve, I should be able to have my guns - you kill them your way, I kill them mine - and it's clear you will, on a routine basis, but I will not unless attacked. What side were you on in the social Darwinism argument?

                                Christian Graus wrote:

                                How can someone who is not paid to have children they can't afford, game the system ? There's nothing to game.

                                It broke. It's the father's fault. She said she was protected. He said he had a vasectomy. I could afford it, but I got fired. We could afford it, before the father died. Oh, I can afford the kid, it's me I can't afford. He's the father, but he is married, should I penalize his wife and kids for what he did? Or are you just going to make the kids pay for their parents' mistakes? That way they can grow up in even worse squalor, with even less education, and pump out ever more children.

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                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  Because money isn't used to kill people. Duh.

                                  Blatantly false. Duh.

                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  Well, I think that is BS.

                                  So taking guns is in the name of a better society, but feeding children isn't? I guess if they starve, I should be able to have my guns - you kill them your way, I kill them mine - and it's clear you will, on a routine basis, but I will not unless attacked. What side were you on in the social Darwinism argument?

                                  Christian Graus wrote:

                                  How can someone who is not paid to have children they can't afford, game the system ? There's nothing to game.

                                  It broke. It's the father's fault. She said she was protected. He said he had a vasectomy. I could afford it, but I got fired. We could afford it, before the father died. Oh, I can afford the kid, it's me I can't afford. He's the father, but he is married, should I penalize his wife and kids for what he did? Or are you just going to make the kids pay for their parents' mistakes? That way they can grow up in even worse squalor, with even less education, and pump out ever more children.

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                                  RichardM1 wrote:

                                  Blatantly false. Duh.

                                  Only if someone ties someone down and stuffs money in their mouth until they choke. To quote Lynyrd Skynyrd, a gun is made for killing, it ain't good for nothin' else.

                                  RichardM1 wrote:

                                  So taking guns is in the name of a better society, but feeding children isn't?

                                  You're one step removed from the issue. The issue is that the kids exist at all, to unfit parents who only have them for the money. Take away the incentive, and the kids don't even exist.

                                  RichardM1 wrote:

                                  I guess if they starve, I should be able to have my guns - you kill them your way, I kill them mine - and it's clear you will, on a routine basis, but I will not unless attacked.

                                  You've just utterly missed the point - well done.

                                  RichardM1 wrote:

                                  That way they can grow up in even worse squalor, with even less education, and pump out ever more children.

                                  This is as stupid as the 'people would get paid more without minimum wage' argument. If you take away the incentive to have kids, they'll have more kids to spite you ? Get real.

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                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    This sort of statement pretends that a guy with no real skills beyond manual labour can negotiate as an equal with Ford or BP. It's not the case.

                                    No it does not, nor is it the case, I never said it was.

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    Rubbish

                                    You see, you have nothing to back up your case for big government.

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    Sure - some people are stupid. Take away the schools, that would make them smarter ?

                                    In a free market system, the government couldn't take away or take over schools. The government would have no say in private individual's schooling.

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    You say that like some people prefer to starve, and die.

                                    I did not say that. I said they will not prefer to starve and die, so they will have the incentive to do what is necessary to make a living.

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    That is just so stupid. Everyone WANTS to be a consumer, some people just don't have the money to participate, or, in a pure capitalist system, the wherewithall to ever get it.

                                    Everyone does want to be a consumer, and that is the drive for people to profit in some way or another. Either through sales, labor, or investments.

                                    Christian Graus wrote:

                                    Like when ?

                                    Like now.

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                                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                    No it does not, nor is it the case, I never said it was.

                                    So you accept that a manual laborer has no real options but be a slave to whatever subsistence wage the company chooses to pay ?

                                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                    You see, you have nothing to back up your case for big government.

                                    I'm not for big government. I'm just not for no government.

                                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                    In a free market system, the government couldn't take away or take over schools. The government would have no say in private individual's schooling.

                                    Exactly - the government would do nothing to provide education, so there would be more dumb people. Perfect wage slaves for the corporations.

                                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                    I did not say that. I said they will not prefer to starve and die, so they will have the incentive to do what is necessary to make a living.

                                    But only in a dream world where the corporations line up to make that possible to uneducated people with no skills, right ?

                                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                    Everyone does want to be a consumer, and that is the drive for people to profit in some way or another. Either through sales, labor, or investments.

                                    So if I WANT to be a millionaire CEO, that's all it takes ? Just add some pixie dust, and anything is possible ? That DOES sound like the sort of fantasy world you're promoting in general.

                                    CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                    Like now.

                                    Say it as often as you like, so long as you convince yourself, that seems to be all that matters.

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                                      RichardM1 wrote:

                                      Blatantly false. Duh.

                                      Only if someone ties someone down and stuffs money in their mouth until they choke. To quote Lynyrd Skynyrd, a gun is made for killing, it ain't good for nothin' else.

                                      RichardM1 wrote:

                                      So taking guns is in the name of a better society, but feeding children isn't?

                                      You're one step removed from the issue. The issue is that the kids exist at all, to unfit parents who only have them for the money. Take away the incentive, and the kids don't even exist.

                                      RichardM1 wrote:

                                      I guess if they starve, I should be able to have my guns - you kill them your way, I kill them mine - and it's clear you will, on a routine basis, but I will not unless attacked.

                                      You've just utterly missed the point - well done.

                                      RichardM1 wrote:

                                      That way they can grow up in even worse squalor, with even less education, and pump out ever more children.

                                      This is as stupid as the 'people would get paid more without minimum wage' argument. If you take away the incentive to have kids, they'll have more kids to spite you ? Get real.

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                                      Christian Graus wrote:

                                      Only if someone ties someone down and stuffs money in their mouth until they choke.

                                      Right. The US defense budget doesn't count? The money I used to buy my guns doesn't count? Money doesn't make hit man work? Nobody was ever killed to take their money, or for the insurance? Do you really think the money is any less to blame than the gun? Hell, if that's true, most 'gun shot victims' are killed by blood loss. I mean. yeah, the hole was caused by the bullet, but lets be fair here. It's not even the guns fault, since the bullet did it. How much indirection are you willing to not see?

                                      Christian Graus wrote:

                                      To quote Lynyrd Skynyrd, a gun is made for killing, it ain't good for nothin' else.

                                      Not all killing is bad killing, not all shooting is killing, and do I need to pull out the vasectomy quote? And who cares what LS says about anything? Your smart enough to know fame means nothing! Charlton Heston said guns are good, do you accept his word? He was a Famous Person, you know!

                                      Christian Graus wrote:

                                      to unfit parents who only have them for the money.

                                      You are going to have to provide stats for that. I know there have been a couple of well publicized cases here, but that is like being too scared of terrorists to fly, but driving on the highway, your view on the stats is distorted.

                                      Christian Graus wrote:

                                      You've just utterly missed the point - well done.

                                      You've just utterly side stepped the issue - well done. There are going to be babies. There are going to be poor people. Unless you plan on mandatory abortion for the poor, you are going to have poor babies. What are you going to do with them? Are you going to spend any money on feeding them, or are you going to let them die?

                                      Christian Graus wrote:

                                      If you take away the incentive to have kids, they'll have more kids to spite you ? Get real.

                                      In your church, are people only supposed to have sex to make children? (that is against your argument, not your church) The times I've had sex to make children is a small part of the times I've had sex. In general, the incentive for having sex is sex. Babies just sort of happen. Some people never figure out why, and they are the ones you want to stop, but you won't.

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                                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                        You have it backwards, the chosen few win in a rigged economy.

                                        If the economy is too rigged, then perhaps, to some degree. My point is, there are clear losers in a pure capitalistic system, and they are the poor and under privileged. That is plainly true, from history.

                                        CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                        There are still laws in a free-market. You cannot falsely advertise, steal, break contracts, kill people. In a free-market, with liberty and property rights, you have the perfect balance.

                                        None of this stops companies from taking advantage of people, and creating a system that the poor cannot escape, where their lives are cut short and rendered not worth living.

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                                        Christian Graus wrote:

                                        My point is, there are clear losers in a pure capitalistic system, and they are the poor and under privileged. That is plainly true, from history.

                                        Damn it, Christian, you say stuff like that when you are arguing with CSS? You know I won't say anything that agrees with him in the same thread! That was just wrong, doing that to me! :laugh:

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                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          Guess who are also capitalists, out to make as much money as they can? Regular workers.

                                          This sort of statement pretends that a guy with no real skills beyond manual labour can negotiate as an equal with Ford or BP. It's not the case.

                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          Free government education is just as bad or worse as no education

                                          Rubbish

                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          Look at all these welfare parents, living in wretched poverty, and stupider than a rock.

                                          Sure - some people are stupid. Take away the schools, that would make them smarter ?

                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          In a free-market system, those people would be out to make a buck, and they would be developing necessary skills because THEY HAVE TO.

                                          You say that like some people prefer to starve, and die. It might be true to a point, but only to a point.

                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          And that leaves out nobody, for everyone is a consumer

                                          That is just so stupid. Everyone WANTS to be a consumer, some people just don't have the money to participate, or, in a pure capitalist system, the wherewithall to ever get it.

                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          Except when you do it of course Roll eyes

                                          Like when ?

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                                          Christian Graus wrote:

                                          CaptainSeeSharp wrote:

                                          Free government education is just as bad or worse as no education

                                          Rubbish

                                          Sorry, Christian, but you are arguing right into his trap. He can always point to himself to uphold his point. But I don't agree with him on this.

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