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I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3832374" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>I ask you simple questions which you never respond to because you don't know the answers. You rant against capitalism but can't defend what you're a proponent of. Just because an academic says something doesn't necessarily make it so. There's theory, then there's the real world. In theory socialism sounds great. In reality it eventually falls apart. The incentive to do well lies with capitalism. Take away that incentive and the only way ultimately you can get things done is coercion. Threatening violence and sometimes committing violence to scare people into compliance. That wasn't enough to hold the Soviet Union together. In Greece, for example, there was violence as people reacted to having things promised to them taken away because those great things couldn't be paid for. In Venezuela everything has fallen apart and violence committed to survive has already driven many Venezuelans to flee the country. People can sit around pondering the possibilities of an equal and just world in an academic setting without fear of losing their substantial salaries paid for by a capitalist system. But when they use their position to influence tomorrow's leaders who are uninformed about the consequences of such theory, they endanger us all with their influence. That's happening all across the country, and those young minds are coming out into a world that doesn't have the opportunities to succeed previous generations had because free trade closed down many of those avenues. And as hoped by academics the frustration is building with the system because they want as good a life as their parents. So they start believing that if they change the system into that equal opportunity, socially just system their professors talked about everything will be better. Pretty easy to see the seeds have been planted. Trump is trying to bring back opportunities but that has unequal outcomes and requires time and hard work. They want everything now, and are looking to new leadership to bring it to them. It's going to be interesting how this unfolds, and it may not be pretty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3832374, member: 24302"] I ask you simple questions which you never respond to because you don't know the answers. You rant against capitalism but can't defend what you're a proponent of. Just because an academic says something doesn't necessarily make it so. There's theory, then there's the real world. In theory socialism sounds great. In reality it eventually falls apart. The incentive to do well lies with capitalism. Take away that incentive and the only way ultimately you can get things done is coercion. Threatening violence and sometimes committing violence to scare people into compliance. That wasn't enough to hold the Soviet Union together. In Greece, for example, there was violence as people reacted to having things promised to them taken away because those great things couldn't be paid for. In Venezuela everything has fallen apart and violence committed to survive has already driven many Venezuelans to flee the country. People can sit around pondering the possibilities of an equal and just world in an academic setting without fear of losing their substantial salaries paid for by a capitalist system. But when they use their position to influence tomorrow's leaders who are uninformed about the consequences of such theory, they endanger us all with their influence. That's happening all across the country, and those young minds are coming out into a world that doesn't have the opportunities to succeed previous generations had because free trade closed down many of those avenues. And as hoped by academics the frustration is building with the system because they want as good a life as their parents. So they start believing that if they change the system into that equal opportunity, socially just system their professors talked about everything will be better. Pretty easy to see the seeds have been planted. Trump is trying to bring back opportunities but that has unequal outcomes and requires time and hard work. They want everything now, and are looking to new leadership to bring it to them. It's going to be interesting how this unfolds, and it may not be pretty. [/QUOTE]
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