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Originally Posted by Swisivo
I wouldn't want to live in a world where it's not possible to become a "multi-billionaire, hogging all the wealth".
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I wouldn't want to live in a world that doesn't work towards ending child poverty. The point here is that the virtues of a pure capitalist system aren't self-evident. Trickle-down economics doesn't work. Capitalism doesn't have a built-in morality.
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Originally Posted by Swisivo
Socialism sounds naive.
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As Charlatan has pointed out, there are elements of it in practice already; many of them are entrenched.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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