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>>1024718
He's the best

>>964222
Thankfully, economics is not a zero-sum game

Wealth inequality is only an issue in nations where the poor are starving. In the U.S., even those in "poverty" own cars, computers, video games, iPhones, etc. The only real challenge they face are unsafe neighborhoods, which are mostly due to the amount of red tape we wrap around the cops these days.

In a democratic, law-based country with even a somewhat free market, dignity is the key to the fulfilled man. Laws are created to protect his dignity, to protect him from even the state itself. This enables ensured private ownership, leading to what you could call capitalism. Capitalism, not ever being a constructed ideology envisioned by one man, is imperfect, but it is acceptable in its imperfection because of the natural imperfections of man. Seeking not perfection but to supply demands, it provides a net benefit for everyone.

In a socialist/communist/marxist country, revenge on class enemies is the key to the fulfilled man, for it will lead to "ownership by the proles" or something similar. Therefore all the man needs to find is his enemies and something to beat them over the head with. Revenge must be violent, or carried out with threat of violence - you can't just convince your enemies to hand over everything to you. Seeking perfection, Marxism then sets about using the means that got it thus far - violence - to mold the perfect, "new" man. Seeking perfection, it makes everyone miserable and paranoid, even after the "class enemies" have been neutered. It promises people the world if they but avenge themselves on the "class enemies," but provides nothing after that.

Marxism is not wrong in just its economic thinking. Marxists gave up that fight long ago. Now instead they try to argue for its moral superiority. How laughable. It is clear that if one must choose between a system based on dignity or a system based on violence which one is more moral, and which one should produce a happier outcome.

In other words, Marxism sucks economically, politically, socially, morally. How long until you Marxists figure that out?