We have sewers and a treatment plant wear I live. How would you make that happen in your silly society. We just had a new bridge built and expanded our transit system. How does that happen?
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The people who value it will pay for it. If they don't what is the justification for forcing people who do not value it to pay?
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The only justification needed is the collective good. That is the future. The selfish actors are destined to lose in the world that is coming. The theory you are pushing is a last grasp idea of a dying system. Your arbitrator will often just side with the person that pays more.
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If the collective good were served by torturing one individual continuously for the rest of his life, would that torture be justified?
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That is a silly question. There is no circumstance that would fit that criteria
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But you are arguing for the supremacy of a collective good. The difference is only a matter of degree. How much are you willing to violate another person to achieve your ends?
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With your ideaolgy we all compete with one another as the rich use more and more machines making it harder for us to earn money. Leading to a rather dystopian future.
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What prevents someone from just offering goods or services to the public?
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That is ownership that socialsim threatens not home ownership. Just the wealth inequality apparatus is dismantled. CEO can only make, say 5 times what the lowest paid worker makes and profits are shared with all worker. Also workers get a say in how the company operates.
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Wealth inequality is a result of inequality of contribution. There is no reason for a person who contributes little (as judged by those who trade for it) to gain much.
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Nope! If children go to school where they can’t learn to read by age of 8 - and there are millions of them- they’ll probably never graduate from high school. Their economic problems later in life aren’t just that they don’t “contribute” enough; it’s that our society failed them

Sep 29, 2020 · 2:17 PM UTC

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Sadly our system of education has failed. Think of the millions of Americans currently incarcerated. If they are lucky enough to go to a prison that offer some kind of education program, for some it’s the first opportunity I’ve had to learn how to read.