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The kind of economic views that get heavily upvoted on Reddit really terrify me, because I view it as an indication of the future as our generations age. They don't even seem like economic views, but rather moral values wearing the clothes of economic opinions.

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It's basically "rich=bad, poor=victims" and making policy moves based off of this extremely simplistic rule is going to fuck us so hard.

4:59 PM · Nov 7, 2019

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Our economic system is so delicate and so mindblowingly complex and trying to 'fix' things according to your personal simplistic and moralistic story is like clipping the toes off a cat or breeding pugs till they can't breathe because "I like it better that way"

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I don't know what you're reading, but I've yet to read a single comment saying being rich is bad. Nothing wrong with being rich, but amount of wealth at the top of the system is literally incomprehensible. Several hundred people should not have as much as half the population.

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I don't necessarily disagree, but I do want to point out a small thing, which the "should." Already we have a moralistic frame about the world. What if all rich people vanished, leaving you at your current state of wealth, unchanged? Would you be happier?

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Anything political, moral, or “economic” on Reddit is dreadful. I can’t stand to visit if I’m not logged on.

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The Socialist’s worst nightmare is a free society where individuals work, succeed and prosper. It gives the lie to their gloomy tales of ‘exploitation’ and renders them totally obsolete. They want you to fail so they can ‘save’ you!

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cumrade poptart

@MegawattPusher

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Maybe they're being upvote because the background context is already understood. Would you rather us write out the full text of "Das Kapital" before commenting on economic issues?

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@catoyescaesarno

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Freedom to create is the foundation of robust economies. Study history, there is a direct correlation between these 2 dynamics. What´s vexing is we humans can´t learn the simplest, and most important, of things. But we need to keep trying.

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Oh I wish this was just limited to Reddit users but sadly mainstream dems have that view as well. ie Sanders is no less than a card-carrying communist in his economic views (and an anti-Semitic on top of that).

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People have this utterly mind-numbing idea that to get rich you must have taken that wealth from someone else. As if the economy and business is literally no more complex than a game of monopoly.

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It all seems to be based on this idea that most people don't understand is that wealth can be created. Most of those types of people seem to think in their heart of hearts, that it is all a zero sum game, and to "win" you have to "steal" from someone else.