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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by gptadmirer on Saturday December 24, 2022 @01:00PM (#34119267)
Yes life is a grind and competition. Open your eyes. This is the reality. We humanity have a built in kill switch in our head, greed. Rich or poor, young or old. Everyone thinks about themselves. This is what makes competition and free market work. Communism doesn’t work. You think more distribution will make us hold hands together and sing kumbaya near a firepit? Who’s gonna decide where and how much the distribution should go? There will be blood on the streets.

It is impossible for everyone in this Earth to live like an average Americans. The Earth will suffer.

They don’t have to work for Walmart. Please study programming or plumbing instead.

Meanwhile a lot of people in other countries would kill to have their standard of living. The only reason why they have the salary and standard living that they have compared to 3rd world country is because their country export inequalities, trash, made possible by their money printing machine backed by military power.

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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by feet on Saturday December 24, 2022 @01:52PM (#34119861)
In communism everything is owned by the state, that makes everyone a member of the state which means we all get an equal vote in determining distribution and allocation. Communism is democracy taken to the logical extreme
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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by anankaie on Saturday December 24, 2022 @08:48PM (#34123231)
And in practice, this effectively never happens (are there good examples of it happening?). Somehow the revolution keeps getting stuck in the totalitarian phase.
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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by feet on Saturday December 24, 2022 @08:53PM (#34123267)
Yea the CIA definitely never gets involved either
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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by jxidjhdhdhdhfhf on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:49PM (#34129336)
So you're saying communism can't survive in the real world where foreign intelligence agencies exist?
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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by richbell on Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:13PM (#34129580)
> So you're saying communism can't survive in the real world where foreign intelligence agencies exist?

I mean, this is an incredibly disingenuous conclusion. By that logic democracy is flawed and can never exist in South America, the Middle East, or any other number of places where the CIA staged coups and assassinated leaders.

It's hard for any system to thrive, regardless of its merit, when the world's de-facto superpower has dedicated billions into its destruction.

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