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You wanna know what else makes billionaires billions of dollars? A strong middle class...the one with a lot of disposable income to, you guessed it, spend on goods and services!
Make enough affordable reliable cars then people with the disposable income will buy a new one every 5ish years and then the secondary used car market has good reliable cars to sell
Man can be free only when and if he’s able to rise above his insecurities
Basically what the Venus Project wants to do, except no artificial currency
No one in the UK started a drug empire to pay for chemo.
My two thoughts on this:
If I ask people for a million dollars to higher cops they'll give it to me easy, if I ask for 100k to reduce crime through community outreach - it's a huge fight
That experiment where a class needs to unanimously agree to all recieve 98% final grade but 30% of them absolutely refuse to give themselves a leg up if that also means someone else gets it and they didn't work as hard.
Yes, but no one can get fabulously rich off this.
On the flipside, the harder you squeeze the underclass the harder they work. (And they are kept in a state of safe distraction too)
So there's a balance.
Yes. I don't remember the name of the civilization, but there was an entirely "peaceful" society that existed for several hundred years, until Christopher Columbus showed up, and raped and murdered them all.
No group of people has ever been peaceful with each other, let’s stop this anti-west fantasy and start talking about real problems, like how to fix democracies and capitalism
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/north-american-indigenous-warfare-and-ritual-violence
https://newsofstjohn.com/the-taino-legacy-of-a-peaceful-joyous-and-ingenious-people/
Try again, and stop erasing history. They were unique because they lived on an isolated island, so they didn't have neighbors to make war with.
Oh, and I was misinformed, Columbus didn't wipe them all out, just most of them. Some still exist and have resumed their ancestral ways, apparently.
And when they got close, they killed each other. So to my point, maybe some people should just live on a different planet
You didn't bother reading the source. No they didn't. Stop trying to whitewash history. They had ceremonial battles that included wooden "weapons" to resolve disputes. They didn't kill each other.
And you’re just using a trite anti-west agenda talking point. The archaeological records shows existence of precolonial war
https://courses.washington.edu/war101/readings/Lambert--archy%20of%20N%20Am%20warfare.pdf
the public housing part is like one bad decision from a workhouse, but otherwise yeah