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charlotte_webOct 1, 2009
I don't care how much Moore pays in taxes; that's his business. I searched the entire page for the word "tax", and the poster directly above you was the only person to mention it, and then only to point out the hypocrisy of Moore's position.
kbucklandOct 1, 2009
Hey MM - quit being a hypocrite and move to Cuba, red China or North Korea. You could make "documentaries" on behalf of the state-controlled media. You might even lose a few pounds with rationed rice.
falconearOct 3, 2009
This has been bugging me for days now, because they keep feeding him this setup question, and he should know how to answer it: There are plenty of rich people in a socialist system! As long as you have representative government there's nothing to keep you from getting rich. You just can't be obscenely-nobody needs that much money rich. There are plenty of people in Western Europe that are richer than any of us will ever dream of being.As for Capitalism not being a political system? We'll never have democracy as long as money talks. Do this experiment...go to see your congressman and show up at the same time as a CEO of a major corporation. See who gets seen. Who was Max Baucus representing last week? The people who wanted a public option, or his insurance company masters?
austrologiOct 3, 2009
I am young, but I am far from naive. Educated and well read. In your scenario, you implicitly pitch the idea that the owner of the resource should not in fact on the resource. That the resource should be collectively owned. Regardless of what that person gave up to purchase the resource, it should belong to the other farmers. For the sake of argument I will ignore the fact, I don't know, the fact we have a thing called rain. The original problem you put forth, information asymmetry, this is a problem faced by everyone, not just the little guy on who catches the raw end of deal. If you are ignorant on a topic, you probably shouldn't be involving yourself in exchange of that good or service. Is it exploitative if someone sells you a TV for 2 grand when its only worth a grand when you didn't bother to alleviate your own ignorance via a simple google search? But even if you reject the notion of private property on moral grounds. Look at other collective resources. Like fishing. No one has an incentive to preserve the resource, because then the next guy just gets more. It is a problem of game theory. The privately owned water source on the other hand, he has incentive to sell his water to all of the farmers at a high price, not just one. As they all need some water. No exploitative, mutually beneficial.
brundlefly76Oct 5, 2009
Capitalism has usurped our democracy directly through the use of congressional campaign donations.The objective of congress is not to support democracy but instead re-election. Re-election is accomplished through campaign spending. Campaign spending is supported by campaign donations. Campaign donations are delivered through special interest seeking access to legislation.I can pull anyone off the street and ask them if they have seen their congressional representative's re-election tv ad, but few could recite their voting record to me.
linuxpenguinOct 7, 2009
I propose that he's not really all that stupid. . . he's made quite a nest egg for himself.I think he's intelligent, but he's just really deluded.
linuxpenguinOct 7, 2009
Actually, it's more like "you're going to get called out if you lie or exaggerate too much about how much it benefited you".Michael Moore would probably be dirt poor, living on the street if not for our capitalistic system which allowed him to sell and market his movies.
crudomaticOct 7, 2009
"""I'm a believer in a constitution that upholds the rights of workers."""Communism won't give you that. Look at the commie death toll.
blackwing602Oct 8, 2009
I was looking at this recent thread on boingboing where Cory Doctorow describes how his Trotskyite father used to retell Conan stories with a communist spin. I noticed how other people joined in, describing themselves as also "coming from a Red Jewish family" as if that were a well-understood demographic.<a class="user" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/robert-e-howard-coll.html#comments" rel="nofollow">http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/08/robert-e-howa ...</a>I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who describes himself as coming from a Nazi-Jewish family.
xfirealchemistxOct 13, 2009
Without capitalism you would be nothing.
thecoolestguyFeb 9, 2010
FDR got all of his social democracy policies enacted, the result is a gradual decline in American economic dominance, the exporting of manufacturing overseas, and bankrupt social welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare.
spartan777Feb 9, 2010
I think you are confusing FDR with Bush or Reagan. FDR is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At the end of WWII, the US had 1/3 of the *world's* industrial capacity, and 50% of the world's wealth. FDR was gone by the end of the war, but his policies were in full effect. Is 50% of the world's wealth a "decline in American economic dominance?" How could manufacturing have been exported if we had 1/3 of the world's entire capacity? SS and medicare are not bankrupt in any sensible meaning of the word, only in your ideological and myopic sense.