wealth inequality worse than the French revolution

When the creator of the Revolutions podcast was asked about the one theme that follows every revolution, he said that it was wealth inequality.

If I remember correctly, the French revolution had three major elements that kicked it off the way it did: huge wealth inequality, a major event that hits the lower classes (in this case a drought that destroyed lots of crops and therefore caused a wheat shortage), and incompetent leadership that is unable to deal with said event. Looks like the US is getting there, step by step.

The founder of Nordwolle is famous for his rant about the German bureaucracy. Great guy.

I think I understand your position.

In a previous post, you seem to give value to functioning as opposed to being dead. Why is that? Why does functioning even matter if your position seems to be that death is the absolute worst thing that can happen to someone?

because I believe that death is the least functional state a person can have and anything above that implies at least some functioning even if that state is still highly undesirable).

A person can lose all brain functions and remain alive, implying that there is no chance of making new experiences of any kind. Does that count for you as functional?

I do not really believe that there is such a thing as a “fate worse than death”

What about unimaginable suffering before one’s certain death? Would this not qualify as a worse fate than death?

I don’t really have a strong opinion on this topic, but one example comes to mind that shows that many people don’t act according to your maxime. Have you ever seen those battlefield suicides that are filmed by the drones in Ukraine? I’m not going to link them here, but they are plentyful. So, so many soldiers, many of them wounded, decide to take their own life to avoid going through an experience that they probably view as worse than death. I just think it’s interesting and worth considering.

A fully planned system has also shown to become highly inefficient

Nobody was arguing that.

I don’t think you understand what actually is meant by the term “capitalism”. Capitalism does not mean free markets. Capitalism primarily means the ownership of the means of production in private hands. You can come up with a system which is highly regulated, to some degree even planned, which can still be considered capitalistic.

On the other hand, it is easy to imagine a socialist system whose economy consist solely of companies fully owned by the people that work there, i.e. the workers, while the companies themselves engage in a competitive and free market. It would be just like today, except workers have a say in who leads the organization, and how, in a democratic process.

In short capitalism != free market and vice versa.

Gary erklärt wie.

They can threaten all they want, it’s simply not possible. If it actually was possible, they’d have done that a long time ago.

You’re wrong.

Yes, it is.

Not sure what you’re trying to say, honestly. Democratic values == evil communism?

In my mind, the idea of left politics is to democratize society as much as possible. Any type of Authoritarianism goes against that, including the idea of a single party with a single leader. It’s anti-democratic, and therefore does not fit into the category of leftist politics, even if they call themselves left. No racist is gonna call himself racists. And fashists neither.

Behindertstes Argument, das ich je gehört hab. Shame on you.

So if you’re Russian, sure, go for it!

What a very intelligent take.

Inwiefern ist Ukraine profitabel fir Airbus DS?

That’s kidnapping!

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