Re:How poverty changes your mindset
by dragonwriter on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:48PM
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The Marxist critique of capitalism includes critique of the capacity for improvement within capitalism; you seem to want people to approach Marxism as a critique of capitalism and then ignore key parts of that critique.
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I think Karl Marx is right about a lot things, I think Adam Smith is right about a lot of things- I think our(The US, Global Economy) current system must be incredibly flawed for so much wealth to be concentrated in such a way that a shockingly small group of individuals hold a useless amount of wealth. Redistribution in the form of systems that improve everyone's quality of life is the only thing that makes sense...I honestly don't think how one could see otherwise?
Re:How poverty changes your mindset
by skookumchuck on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:24PM
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> useless
What do you think wealthy people do with their money?
> the only thing that makes sense
If you want to end human progress. Me, I'm excited about Musk's progress in space exploration, for one example.
The idea that human progress only happens under a free market is totally detached from reality and most of human history. I'm resisting inserting a joke about libertarianism here for fear being a bit too on the nose.