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Re:What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor fami... by manicdee on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:10PM (#21716545)
The key to having a political divide is to avoid paying attention to reality, such as dismissing the gambling industry as “a video game”.

Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world you will find that “corporations suck” and “governments suck” are not two sides of a political divide but simply two versions of the same problem: power corrupts, and anyone granted power needs regulation and oversight.

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Re:What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor fami... by dawg- on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:35PM (#21816084)
>Once you have experience with capitalism in the real world

This is an incredibly snide, condescending thing to say to someone you don't know anything about. So your experience is the "real world", and anyone who thinks differently from you must be hallucinating, right? Sometimes I think it would be nice to be so confident.

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