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0 pointsdennis_jeeves22y ago0 comments

> The thing is, Jeff Bezos has done far more to push up my wages indirectly by virtue of Amazon existing and hiring talent, and offering great salaries

Well, you got to understand how the mind of a socialist work. They would rather have everyone equally poor and equally miserable quality of life, than a rich society where there might be huge disparities of wealth, and even the poorest may have a reasonably good quality of life.

It's a purely an envy thing. Nothing else.

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defrost2y ago

Don't look now, there's a socialist under your bed with red glowing eyes.

I think they might be Nordic or Australian, maybe from the EU ...

It's just terrifying what these monsters get up to.

> They would rather have everyone equally poor and equally miserable quality of life,

What, you "learnt" about socialism, social policy, and socialists from reading Harrison Bergeron and never looked any further?

At least add a /s tag to such obvious claptrap.

Jensson2y ago

> I think they might be Nordic or Australian, maybe from the EU ...

None of those caps wealth, plenty of billionaires there, they are capitalist as well.

defrost2y ago

"Socialism" and "Socialist Policy" are huge tents - the definition implied by the GP comment is an extreme.

Sound bite dictionary definitions look like:

    a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

"Owned or Regulated" as in the people police the commons and those capitalist industries that seek to profit from and supply to the people.

It's quite alright to laugh at those that take Harrison Bergeron as a socialist text and claim that the goal is to reduce everybody down to some lowest common denominator.

They are, quite literally, just being very very silly and attempting to invoke a bogeyman to scare children.

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0 pointsdennis_jeeves22y ago0 comments

> The thing is, Jeff Bezos has done far more to push up my wages indirectly by virtue of Amazon existing and hiring talent, and offering great salaries

It's a purely an envy thing. Nothing else.

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defrost2y ago

Don't look now, there's a socialist under your bed with red glowing eyes.

I think they might be Nordic or Australian, maybe from the EU ...

It's just terrifying what these monsters get up to.

> They would rather have everyone equally poor and equally miserable quality of life,

What, you "learnt" about socialism, social policy, and socialists from reading Harrison Bergeron and never looked any further?

At least add a /s tag to such obvious claptrap.

Jensson2y ago

> I think they might be Nordic or Australian, maybe from the EU ...

None of those caps wealth, plenty of billionaires there, they are capitalist as well.

defrost2y ago

"Socialism" and "Socialist Policy" are huge tents - the definition implied by the GP comment is an extreme.

Sound bite dictionary definitions look like:

    a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

"Owned or Regulated" as in the people police the commons and those capitalist industries that seek to profit from and supply to the people.

It's quite alright to laugh at those that take Harrison Bergeron as a socialist text and claim that the goal is to reduce everybody down to some lowest common denominator.

They are, quite literally, just being very very silly and attempting to invoke a bogeyman to scare children.

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