Many socialists think that wealth & value can’t be created, only redistributed. If you have more, it’s because someone out there has less. You haven’t created something that’s added value, you’ve just unfairly taken value from other people.
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Yes, they do. I literally posted a graph that showed the overall share of wealth in China diverging, and people conflated that with the number of poor people increasing. People reasoned that if people had more, it’s because they must have taken it from poor.
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The idea that wealth can be added to an economy, and that everyone has more, just some people see a bigger increase than others is flat or rejected.
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Even though the pie gets bigger redistribution can still be justified if, and only if, the net gain from it is greater than the net disincentive it creates. Chicago school vs Keynesian disagree on this one. A more important factor is who is incentivized to reproduce.
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It’s still theft.
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Theft is immoral. Giving the stolen goods to the less fortunate doesn’t make it right. Glad you at least recognize that it is theft, though.
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Extortion. Not theft. Don't bastardize the language.
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Extortion is a synonym of theft. Either word he uses here doesn’t change the fact that theft is theft no matter what word you use.
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I mean... literally dude... literally... how?
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P-zombies don't have thoughts. Ergo, literally no one thinks this way.
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Just join her patreon buddy.
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Ignorant leftists who lack a basic understanding of economics are a dime a dozen. I just point and laugh.
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What plant do you live on you say no one thinks this?
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No one could possibly be so retarded as to think it's a zero sum game. That's just ludicrous
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People should literally never use the would “Literally” with generalizations.
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They absolutely do. This is called zero sum economics, and it's a very common mindset among the left. It's also a large part of my problem with Donald Trump's trade policy.
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ALL dems say the exact same thing. Just listen to the way they talk about the wealthy...like they themselves aren't wealthy!!
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