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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by golergka on Sunday May 29, 2016 @01:04PM (#11797098)
There's one thing this communist logic doesn't take into account: risk. Ownership and risk are inherently tied to one another. Thinking only about scenarios where this risk already passed and then calling owners "parasites" is survivorship bias in the purest form.
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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by ommunist on Sunday May 29, 2016 @01:46PM (#11797347)
Communists took ultimate risk when they risked their lives overthrowing capitalism as a system, being it Russia in 1917 or Cuba in 1953.
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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by golergka on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:28PM (#11797833)
That statement's not entirely factually correct, lies by omission, but most importantly, doesn't have anything to do with the risk in question.
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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by ommunist on Sunday May 29, 2016 @03:47PM (#11797905)
Sure thing. A sparrow bravely takes risk of competition for food among other sparrows. And this is not that exact risk the hawks take.
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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by wtbob on Sunday May 29, 2016 @08:30PM (#11798939)
Communists slew far more anti-Communists than anti-Communists slew Communists, by orders of magnitude. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Ho: all killed far more after they took power than were killed by those they overthrew.
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