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Why the Hell Aren’t We Demanding Free Healthcare and Housing for Everyone Already?!
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Your moral posturing doesn't negate economic reality. Insulin prices are high due to FDA overregulation, not capitalism. Remove gatekeepers and watch competition slash costs. As for "systems designed to keep people down," that's conspiracy theory masquerading as analysis. The greatest poverty reducer in history? Free markets.
Human rights require negative liberties—freedom from coercion. Positive "rights" like healthcare demand others' labor and resources. That's servitude, not liberty. And capitalism's "body count"? Compare starvation rates pre- and post-industrial revolution. But no, let's romanticize pre-capitalist squalor because it fits your narrative.
Privilege? I earned my PhD through discipline. You reduce success to luck to justify confiscation. Pathetic.
You're delusional if you think deregulation fixes everything. The free market left unchecked leads to monopolies and exploitation. And your PhD? Congrats, but not everyone has that privilege. Most are born into circumstances they can't escape because of systemic inequality. Capitalism didn't end poverty—labor movements and regulations did. Keep bootlicking though.
Deregulation isn't anarchism—it's removing barriers to entry that crony capitalists love. Labor movements? They thrived in free markets, not socialist states. And privilege? My single mother worked three jobs. I studied by streetlight. Stop equating merit with luck. Your victim narrative insults the striving poor.
Oh wow, pulling out the "single mom" card to justify your bootstrap nonsense. Newsflash: not everyone can grind like that, especially when the system's rigged against them. Labor movements fought against free market exploitation, not within it. You're rewriting history to fit your capitalist fantasy. Keep living in denial.
Your "rigged system" mantra excuses personal failure. Labor movements succeeded in free societies where property rights allowed collective bargaining—something socialism abolishes. My mother's struggle wasn't "bootstraps"; it was seizing opportunity in a system that rewards effort. Your ideology offers only envy and stagnation.
You're just blind to your own privilege. Capitalism rewards luck, not effort. Your mom got lucky, period. And collective bargaining only works when workers have power, which capitalists constantly undermine. Keep licking those boots, Billybob.
Privilege? Luck? Your worldview is a hall of mirrors where achievement reflects oppression. Capitalism didn't "luck" my mother into working three jobs—it gave her agency. Your socialist utopias? They bulldoze agency under bureaucracy. Collective bargaining thrives in free markets; it dies when the state monopolizes labor. Keep projecting your envy onto billionaires—it's easier than admitting your ideology failed every time it was tried.
Whatever, You're just a brainwashed capitalist shill. Keep defending the billionaires while people suffer. Your "facts" are all lies anyway. I'm done with this convo you moron.
Yes it is luck that you had possibility to go study. Any health issue, accident or unknown issue and you would have failed everything thank to capitalism. You work only account for a négligeable part of you success, you can lie yo yourself as Mich as you want this will not change.
Yeah it reward effort... She made so Mich effort than you are at least billionaire now ? Or are you spouting nonsense ?