About Wealth and Income Redistribution

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You bragging of having "super high IQ" means nothing when you basically said "Gravity isn't physics" in another post.
Also constant contradictions, and calling all the socialist benefits you like "public service", because calling it socialist would "make it evil" according to you, even if it's the exact same thing. Several people have pointed out this is multiple other threads but you refuse to learn.

You're pretty much like the caricature version of Marie Antoinette when you talk about rich/poor people. Born into a rich family and unemployed, while constantly shitting on the poor/working class and tell them to "stop being dumb or lazy", is just really out of touch with reality.

At this point it's just comedic.

Oh no, if you really want to bring that up, programmed response isn't physics even though it might appear to be that for people who don't fully understand how programming works. Gravity is most certainly physics though, just not the 2d stuff using one simplistic formula.

[Catta]

Socialism yes.. but not all "social benefits". We all need roads, water, sewers, police, fire fighters, even military.. so taxing citizens to make these things possible would benefit all and aren't stealing especially if everyone can vote how much funding each should receive. However, if it only benefits one group within a society but all have to pay for it anyway, its stealing and definitely not ok. Either give us a choice to opt out or gtfo (examples, college education, dental care, medical care apart from first aid).

Yea - we all need the police and fire fighters - not medical care and education. Its not like a country benefits from a literate healthy work force.

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But who does or does not belong to a group should be up the the group itself. You can't artificially enforce that. My group for example is my family and all earthly creatures but man And as a lazy person, with super high IQ, Im only willing to do the minimum to keep my own happiness and that of the people I care about at maximum without involving unnecessary leeches. So if I care only about animals outside my family, why should I be forced to give anything to people charities? Same thing with other people, if someone only cares about the children, why should they be forced to give to the unemployed.. same thing with everyone. It should be up to people themselves if and who they want to give their hard earned money to.

Let me guess, you're an underachiever but could do anything if you really wanted to?

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Let me guess, you're an underachiever but could do anything if you really wanted to?

Yes and no It's more like being a realist though. I'm not going to do anything what is expected of me, ever.. unless I see a reasonable explanation why I should do it.

To be perfectly honest, Im not really sure what I am. Personally Im not even that selfish or antisocial, I usually help when I can but it has to be a choice. I guess I just oppose the idea of anyone being forced to do anything that doesn't directly benefit them that they might not want to do.

[tehealadin]

Why does it matter? The basic concept of private property is that you can share it with whoever you like. Giving some to your children is not "unfair", it's perfectly fair. The point is that even though you got nothing, you can still become wealthy though, it's not impossible, just harder.

It matters because you claim that if someone has wealth, it is because they worked hard for it. We just pointed out how that isn't always the case. No one says it is wrong, what I am saying is that you cannot claim that it is the result of your own personal graft, all of the time.

So you accept that wealth makes things easier, and coming from a poor background makes things harder? How can you reconcile that with the notion that we all have the same opportunities?

Yea, this one is a caricature.

[Chelly]

Oh no, if you really want to bring that up, programmed response isn't physics even though it might appear to be that for people who don't fully understand how programming works. Gravity is most certainly physics though, just not the 2d stuff using one simplistic formula.

So I asked a programmer and it looks like I was wrong about it, apparently Super Mario does use programmed response.
My apologies for the attacks on that subject.