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Tired of capitalism? There could be a better way.
Washington Post ^ | 9-30-15 | Matt Bruenig

Posted on 10/01/2015 2:51:34 PM PDT by dynachrome

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To: DoughtyOne

I’ve jumped too soon on posts me-self, in the past.


41 posted on 10/01/2015 3:27:31 PM PDT by dynachrome (We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.)
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To: PGR88

Well done!


42 posted on 10/01/2015 3:30:16 PM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: dynachrome

My biggest problem is the poster who thinks I must be talking to them when I’m responding to the first post.

It’s almost always a response to the premise of the article.

I’m sure I’ve taken the first poster to task unreasonably too though.


43 posted on 10/01/2015 3:31:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: dynachrome

No there’s not.


44 posted on 10/01/2015 3:32:02 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: dynachrome
Marxist propaganda posters photo:  ussr0472.jpg `Women and children hit hardest by fascist capitalists!'
45 posted on 10/01/2015 3:35:46 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Ooops. Another error on my part.


46 posted on 10/01/2015 3:42:44 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Thx for your correction. Appreciate your friendship.

I am too old to be immature. I always try to do the right thing...eventually.;-)

47 posted on 10/01/2015 3:49:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.)
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To: dynachrome
Capitalism produces the things non-capitalists wish to "redistribute."

Without it, they quickly run out of things to redistribute.

48 posted on 10/01/2015 4:02:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the Pope Catholic?)
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To: dynachrome
By now, it is well established that capitalism is fundamentally built upon threats of force...as opposed to the governmental threats of being fined, going to jail, having your bank accounts seized, etc etc etc built into systems like Socialism and Communism.....
49 posted on 10/01/2015 4:16:23 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ

In the authors world, this applies to everyone but him and his class of individual. He is intelligentsia and therefore paid by the state.

My bet he was fired for something lim]ke incompetence and this is his way of getting some measure of revenge against those that in hi eyes destroyed him.


50 posted on 10/01/2015 4:37:43 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Jews For Cruz)
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To: dynachrome
by now, it is well established that capitalism is fundamentally built upon threats of force.

Capitalism is the only moral economic system.Capitalism is the economic system based on the recognition of individual rights including property rights in which all property is privately owned.In a free society in which individual rights are respected, the initiation of force and threats of force is prohibited except in self defense.

Wealth is a real good, necessary for living the good life, and private property along with profits are the means and motive of production in a free society under capitalism, which is necessary for the creation of wealth.

51 posted on 10/01/2015 4:41:31 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: jdege

Private property is only for those who are a little more then equal, otherwise you are the property. Any non capital based economic/political system is by definition a slavist state, as is anarchy. How does it feel to know the more then equals have re-enslaved you and are working on ways of further making you owned. We have few years to turn this puppy around. This moron got his econ degree from a box of cracker jacks.


52 posted on 10/01/2015 4:46:00 PM PDT by waynesa98
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To: Mastador1

But but but it could work if you fully implement the progressive manifesto. If you watch the vid of George Bernard shaw, you find the progressive answer. every 3 years you have to justify your worth to a government panel and those who are net takes are expired in a gas chamber. And no one would ever die of old age. How could that ever possible go wrong, oh wait that’s where Hitler got the idea, never mind move along nothing to see here.


53 posted on 10/01/2015 4:53:23 PM PDT by waynesa98
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To: reg45

By now, it is well established that socialism is fundamentally built upon threats of force. Actually its government in any form that is built on the threat of force. The question for us sheeple is how much force are you willing to put up with. Some force is ok, what were dealing with now is not. What the dem’s are trying to hoist on us should get them hung.


54 posted on 10/01/2015 4:59:39 PM PDT by waynesa98
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To: dynachrome

Unfortunately, there are quite a few jerks like this spreading lies and influencing some poorly educated losers.


55 posted on 10/01/2015 5:01:30 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: dynachrome

Does this guy tell how all of this can paid for? Who pays for the Universal Income.

Sounds like another spin on Socialism. The concept of which goes back a long long time. Jonathan Swift who wrote “Gulliver’s Travels”, was advocating this even then.


56 posted on 10/01/2015 5:05:28 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: DoughtyOne

Bigger is better. :)


57 posted on 10/01/2015 5:12:50 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: catnipman

Used to be called ‘BIG’, Basic Income Guarantee. Do they think I would continue to work or take risks if I were guaranteed money for nothing?
Capitalism is such a Communist term.


58 posted on 10/01/2015 5:21:08 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: dynachrome

It is sad that this article was written at all and it is because they know there is an audience for this garbage.

With everything that is happening in this country...I think a reset is the only thing that is going to stop the decline.

I barely recognize my country nowadays.


59 posted on 10/01/2015 5:25:42 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: dynachrome
By now, it is well established that capitalism is fundamentally built upon threats of force.

He starts with a lie, just like any good Prog.

60 posted on 10/01/2015 5:46:56 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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