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You know, except for outcomes, research, etc.

Also good luck when Uncle Adolf comes to town.

There is no evidence for God

I think we will respectfully depart there. I think there is, and hence, rights come from God. You don't think that, but it's such a fundamental difference that it's hard to go anywhere from there.

Sure, have all your money taken without a say to be given crap, rationed care, or most likely die waiting in line.

And on top of that have no way defend yourself or your friends if a new dictator comes to town to send you off to a new summer camp.

Well, it’s not just money. By lowering the taxes and regulatory environment, you increase individual freedoms. That’s worth a lot to Americans.

I’m not sure why Americans care? Europe makes a different, worse tradeoff.

What happens today when the money supply is inflated so that SS becomes a lot less useful, or when the system either collapses or is ended due to spiraling costs?

The problem you mention would be tragic, but with the proliferation of charities I think there would be a lot more options.

And like Ron Paul mentioned at one point, when he was working at hospitals in the early 60s they weren’t required to treat anyone and yet turned away no one.

Sure, there are exceptions but the general principle stands. Those without blood families find them in close friends and charities and churches.

Now that not nearly as much of your wages have been garnished, you would have had all that money during your working years to invest for your retirement. You could even use a private ss-like setup if you like. Besides having more options, more people would pursue having a family for this reason, so the situation would be rarer. Beyond that, you’d have a much stronger charity network.

“Remove the social nets”? Your family is the social net. Oh it would be much better than what we have now. Not only would you get to keep much more of your money, you’d get to use it to support your family yourself — or even use it to plan for your own retirement, your way. It would, of necessity, bring families closer together and encourage forward thinking. By default the family is the social net: this experiment we are in of shifting that to the massive, bureaucratic state is immoral, and on top of that — not going well.

A whole new world of freedom and responsibility. Innovation in the grannycare space. Families brought closer together. Lots of good things, some bad. A net win.

Updated to reflect entitlements rather than just ss.

good way help prevent inequality

It's not the gov's job to prevent inequality, but rather to secure God-given negative rights. Or where do you think rights come from?

$11.7 million for individuals

Should be 0. Death taxes are horrible.

Ebay does it, it makes sense to be there. I would assume this is a deliberate action to hide it.

When trying to reconcile budgets, I need to know what was bought for how much. On the order list page, Amazon does not show the total price paid, but makes you click into each item to see the total. Seems like a dark pattern.

Insider trading is illegal. And I think what robinhood did should be /unless they explicitly stated they could do so in their terms and people went in with eyes wide open/.

I imagine it is, as it seems pretty close to market manipulation, I just want to be careful and understand what’s really going on.

Besides, along with individuals or corporations we should be going after the fed who really manipulates markets and steals from the poor. End the fed.

If so, then prosecute. Which law specifically?

What they did sucks. But I am wondering what contract did they break?

How exactly was this not the free market? Did robinhood do something illegal and break their contract?

I meant the general tone of this forum in regards to private companies doing what they want. Last week it was parler being deplatformed and most here were happy with that as the free market was doing what it wants. Now the free market is doing the same and people are pissed.

Unless you think that what robinhood did violated their contract, but I doubt the court will see it that way.

The sudden reversal is just amusing.

Things are slowly shifting and decentralizing with gab, parler(when they return). Now maybe new startups in the Robinhood space.

Gotta at least make an attempt to make it look fair...

Gab is doing great and growing like crazy.

Edit: Downvoted for facts.

He constantly told people to give all of their possessions away to the poor

No, this is an imbalanced view. Listen to the podcast linked, it was directed at Judeans.

I’m not saying that individuals shouldn’t be wary of holding wealth up as the most important thing as Jesus said you cannot serve God and mammon. But that’s a different thing entirely from “how do you get wealth to begin with”. One can become wealthy in an honest way and then be quite generous if he serves God instead of mammon.

Also not laying up treasures speaks to what one should do when they have money, not the system by which they got money. Coming from Galilee, I think he’d be more pro-free market since he railed against the politically connected who got their money through corruption.

Also there’s a time and a place to take care of the poor voluntarily, but don’t trust everyone whose says they care for the poor. You should donate to them out of your own heart, and be wary of centralized programs. Socialism is the Judas Iscariot view of economics: pretend to care for the poor and then line your own pockets.

I think you have a rather stunted view of capitalism. Go and earn your money in the free market. You are then free to spend it how you want. Capitalism doesn’t dictate that every voluntary monetary transaction has to be market-driven. Charities exist. Donate to those of your own volition.

In fact Jesus came from Galilee, the working/merchant class area. Generally the more capitalist area. He spoke a lot about money, but all of the vitriol was aimed at Judeans, who were close to Jerusalem and politically connected. I.e. ones who didn’t necessarily get their money from usual hard work, but through political exploitation. Good podcast on it here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wROu4IPB4bQ

Ok not sure I’d say it didn’t work out well. The important thing to emphasize is that they were voluntarily showing their love toward each other by selling goods to help take care of needs within the community. It sets a fine example that many strive for today within the church.

Dominionism is simply a return to the Puritan ethic that the teachings of the Bible should influence every aspect of the world.

I’d agree about dispensationalism, but it’s a stretch to say that people shouldn’t study the Bible by themselves just because an errant doctrine may enter their head. I mean, look at all the errant doctrines of Rome, it hasn’t helped them any.

it is pretty obvious why monopolies form

The reason is clear: government regulation. Basically every. single. time. See Milton Friedman on this.

And if you make more than a million dollars a year? With a potential wealth tax added? Certainly the highest tax state. It gets stupid.

At least in Idaho everyone is treated equally.