This is the weirdest thread I have read in a long while. Some guy gets jailed because he does not want to sell his business and you call him a thief?
And what did you make of the 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen. Do you actually hate business per se? How are we to live if not by trading? Shall we all go back to farming and villages?
I am furthermore amazed that you are the most voted. Did you forget that the Russians were starving in 1989? Whatever public property they might have had, it did not produce. So the bottles of milk were, back then, left empty, there were cues in the line for bread.
You must have also forgotten that Russia went banckrupt. Ideology does that to you. But, you see, Russia had no money! If America goes to the point where it has no money at all, it too will sell the Washington Momentum and the public parks. They are public today, because of prosperity through trade, which allows them to afford such amenities.
Now, what do you do when you do not have food, but have assets? You sell them right? Because assets without food are of no use. Especially if these very assets are meant to create food but are not creating it. So how does, turning a bankrupt society, into what now appears to be with food on the table, amount to theft?
Oh, and have you spoken to your father? Has he told you about the public hangings? The hush hush neighbour informer, the gota go to the party rally.
We do not do things for no reason. Man needs incentives. For more than 5,000 years other system have, and probably will be tried, but they have vanished to the footnotes of history. Have you seen the great civilisations? They all were centres of trade. We are not and we shall never again be, farmers.
Now, try some philosophy. Information can be exciting, but dangerous too without some ability to absorb it by critically, practically, as well as theoretically, evaluating it.
1) Some privatization and other social experiments were already underway
2) Some Americans (and hell, someone in just about every country in the world) are starving now.
have you spoken to your father? Has he told you about the public hangings? The hush hush neighbour informer, the gota go to the party rally.
I recommend reading about life in the real-life, post-Stalin USSR, as opposed to the Hollywood dystopia you are describing. You are in for some major surprises.
Have you spoken to your father? Did he tell you about midnight War on Drugs arrests, of stoolies and plea bargains, and of prisons where HIV-positive anal rape is an expected part of a sentence? What, he never mentioned those things? Are they not "as American as apple pie"?
Who is to say what the USA will be remembered for? The dead (empires or people) cannot speak, cannot defend themselves.
Have you seen the great civilisations? They all were centres of trade.
Who said anything about dispensing with trade as a whole?
I don't know, I thought that is what Russia did. I take it you have not spoken to your father then? He has lived through it. You have not. This is not Hollywood, this is not glitters and crazy drugged house flying with birds. This is real life.
I asked if you remember about the lines of bread? I have not heard of any American's starving, but this is not about a comparison. That can become distracting. Let us first learn about what Russia was.
Now, two things by Googling can be confirmed. There were bread lines. It went bankrupt.
When you have no food you sell your assets. So how did he steal? How is he the thief and not, say Stalin? Or indeed your Mr Putin.
My parents never saw an execution, never sat in a prison camp, never quaked in fear of stoolies. Their complaints about everyday life were much the same as those of any American mired in corporate bureaucracy. All bureaucracies are largely alike.
There were bread lines. It went bankrupt.
Have you wondered why? And why it happened when it did?
At this point, you (and all the rest of us in the USA) will be educated the old-fashioned way: by watching the same thing happen in person. It is very sad but appears to be unavoidable. Soon you will not need to bother opening a book to learn how a country goes bankrupt and begins to be famous only for bread lines and a foggily remembered past full of assorted atrocities.
And what did you make of the 1 in 3 prisoners are businessmen. Do you actually hate business per se? How are we to live if not by trading? Shall we all go back to farming and villages?
I am furthermore amazed that you are the most voted. Did you forget that the Russians were starving in 1989? Whatever public property they might have had, it did not produce. So the bottles of milk were, back then, left empty, there were cues in the line for bread.
You must have also forgotten that Russia went banckrupt. Ideology does that to you. But, you see, Russia had no money! If America goes to the point where it has no money at all, it too will sell the Washington Momentum and the public parks. They are public today, because of prosperity through trade, which allows them to afford such amenities.
Now, what do you do when you do not have food, but have assets? You sell them right? Because assets without food are of no use. Especially if these very assets are meant to create food but are not creating it. So how does, turning a bankrupt society, into what now appears to be with food on the table, amount to theft?
Oh, and have you spoken to your father? Has he told you about the public hangings? The hush hush neighbour informer, the gota go to the party rally.
We do not do things for no reason. Man needs incentives. For more than 5,000 years other system have, and probably will be tried, but they have vanished to the footnotes of history. Have you seen the great civilisations? They all were centres of trade. We are not and we shall never again be, farmers.
Now, try some philosophy. Information can be exciting, but dangerous too without some ability to absorb it by critically, practically, as well as theoretically, evaluating it.