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Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers 0 points1 point ago

But there is no balance. Consumer demand does not drive layoffs. Wall Street expectations do. Layoffs happen at companies that are generating big profits, but not big enough profits. That's not right.

Detroit considering switching off half of its streetlights. by KazamaSmokersin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers[S] 1 point2 points ago

It will be turned back to farmland.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -1 points0 points ago

But apparently you didn't lose so much interest you couldn't be bothered going back and downvoting comments with which you disagree.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -2 points-1 points ago

Do you disagree that such a change would be both practicable AND more moral than our present government? No on the first count, debatable on the second.

one certainly has the right to enjoy clean air and water on his property. Water tables do not respect property rights.

Now we have raised an entire generation on government funded and regulated schooling, sent millions through college, and what marketable skills do they have to show for the trillion in government guaranteed debt that they have incurred? Where are the opportunities for them in our planned economy? Please provide quantifiable evidence of charter schools doing better.

I don't think the federal government should be responsible for enormous highways. Someone has to be.

Are you supposing that such roads could not exist otherwise? We built railroads through private enterprise, why not asphalt roads? Because you would be creating a morass of standards and rules that would negatively impact business.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -2 points-1 points ago

Ahhh... the objectivist paradise.

It doesn't work that way. You need clean air. You need clean water. Industry will not self-regulate toward those goals. You need proper education. Industry will not orient itself toward well-rounded education. That is not its nature. Pure capitalism is a race to the bottom for all but the investor.

Also- capitalism is, by nature, expansionist. Please explain how interstates and shipping lanes jibe with a philosophy of "tiny local governments only".

Also - the debate over the moral argument was, by its very nature, centered in a real-world context. The debate is meaningless otherwise.

Detroit considering switching off half of its streetlights. by KazamaSmokersin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers[S] 4 points5 points ago

it's the Broken-pane-of-glass philosophy... slippery slope and all that.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -2 points-1 points ago

Which is why such a society is neither workable nor realistic.

Also - Frances Kelsey. A little bit from my paycheck is a small price to pay to not be up to my neck in flipper babies. Things like that.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -2 points-1 points ago

TIL I am advocating totalitarianism.

Good luck getting your pure capital workers into work during the next winter blizzard in Aynrandtopia. Because... y'know... plowing the streets is an imposition on a free people.

Hey, let's also go back to having the insurance companies supply the firefighters... because it worked so well the last time around.

Not sure how original this is, but I invented a dish that my friends love, and it's time to share it with the world. by Sapiens_Ursusin recipes

[–]KazamaSmokers 0 points1 point ago

If it's served late at night, usually the people eating it are baked, not the omlette itself.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -1 points0 points ago

That's a joke... right? You're claiming that taxes are not enforced in a capitalist society? That mandates don't exist? Or are you talking about a hypothetical "pure" hypercapitalist society?

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -1 points0 points ago

What happens in any of those countries if you fail to pay your taxes, or you dont run your business according to the government's mandates?

That applies to every system.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -1 points0 points ago

Because there have been many non-capitalist economies that are not banana republics. Look at Sweden's history for example. Finland. Venezuela, Bolivia, and Chile before CIA-sponsored coups. Your premise was too simplistic/naive to be taken seriously, hence the derision.

LPT: always check the comments of a LPT. by Amizatsin LifeProTips

[–]KazamaSmokers 0 points1 point ago

  • does not apply to bowling alleys in New England and Nova Scotia.

Parents Aren't Always Right by BEnXDcin funny

[–]KazamaSmokers 1 point2 points ago

Parents just don't understand.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -1 points0 points ago

I agree. But the people in control always make moral agruments in favor of their system, and in this case, those arguments are exposed as false at exactly the point that you cited a few posts up.

Possibly the wrong subreddit for this, but lets have a conversation about this kind of nonsense - HP plans to lay off 27,000 workers. by Caf-fiendin collapse

[–]KazamaSmokers -2 points-1 points ago

One could argue that almost ALL the others are more moral, since, arguably, safety nets are not a shining facet of capitalism.

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