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  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • You tried to compare socialism at its best against capitalism at it worst.

    I think you are confused. I don't believe I've tried to make a comparison between socialism and capitalism in this thread. Perhaps that was someone else?

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • If capitalism works perfectly, by design- anyone has a fair shot.

    I don't believe "fairness" is a defining characteristic of Capitalism. Can you please provide a definition of Captialism so that I can be sure we are talking about the same thing?

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • We’ve really not moved on that far intellectually from the witch trials.

    Cognitive biases seem to be unavoidable. Even if you are well-educated about a particular bias, it often takes reflection (internally or externally motivated) to recognize it in your decisions / behavior.

    Fallacious reasoning is often just as good at convincing an audience, which is one of the reasons they are still in use despite many or most being documented and named in ancient times.

    Individual training in critical thinking skills can help, but theocrats (in specific) and authoritarians (in general) spend a lot of effort making sure that public education is robbed of that. But, that's not enough to "intellectually move on"; even with that training, bias occurs. So, we have to build systems for bias detection and remediation if we want a just global society.

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • Rent seeking existed long before the term ever existed just like fascism. It has always been bad

    IIRC, Adam Smith (from "Wealth Of Nations") decried rent-seeking behavior and implicitly defined a "free market" as one without (free of) rent-seeking, as a form on monopoly, among other things.

    So, yes, it was a recognizable problem in Capitalism before it was ever given name, and I wasn't trying to deny that, just to note that the whole time I've been alive it's consistently gotten worse.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy

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  • The intent was to shame as a method of correction to prevent / reduce the behavior of leaving useless comments, and I believe it has been minimally, but somewhat effective at that.

    Although, my first comment was so vague and satirical that I didn't even upvote it.

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • I'm using the standard meaning of authoritarian socialism: "Academics, political commentators and other scholars tend to distinguish between authoritarian socialist and democratic socialist states, with the first represented in the Soviet Bloc"

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • Lenin proposed the idea of a centralized, rightist vanguard party that would seize power on behalf of the people

    Which became "communism" / authoritarian socialism.

  • ELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?

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  • People hate socialism because they believe it is a right/freedom be able to privately own and control the "means of production" from tools to assembly lines to mines and groves.

    Thatcher said it best: "There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty." and by economic liberty she means that ability to own / exclusively control any (non-sentient) thing.

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    Personally, I think authoritarian socialism (sometimes called "communism") is problematic due to the authoritarian part. I think libertarian socialism (often called "anarchism") is problematic because "warlords" (selfish people willing to use violence to hoard property) will naturally arise from any sufficiently large group and I think they are best opposed via a State with a "monopoly" on violence. But, I am convinced that rent-seeking behavior has been choking Capitalism for a while and it's only gotten worse since I was born (1980)... something needs to rein it in, and I think that something has to be very democratic and significantly socialist, but I don't really have a name for it myself.

  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy

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  • I linked to the video elsewhere in the thread, behind a spoiler tag.

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  • Yeah, plenty of traumatic scalpings around spinning shafts; safety regulations are written in blood.

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  • This comic is edutainment!

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    *: Mainly tiger style.

  • Pennies Are Trash Now | The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.

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  • I wish the USG had published guidelines and regulations prior to discontinuing manufacture, like the Canadian government did.

    It's unclear that rounding prices is legal everywhere in the US, particularly rounding up against the consumer in areas with preexisting truth-in-pricing regulation in place.

    Eliminating the penny is good. The way the USG is doing it ensures the maximum chaos.

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  • I've basically only been seeing the "blowing bubba" meme stuff, but I expect that we will at least get more evidence that Trump got handjobs from women that could not legally consent and were coerced into those acts. There's long been testimony to that effect.

    I hope it torPEDOes this whole Presidency, but I'm a bit tipsy just now.

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  • Aw. Quesaritos are my favorite thing. I might never eat at a Taco Bell again.

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