david starling
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When you become just a cog in the machinery of Capitalism, you surrender your true sense of Self. That's true selflessness.
In a fair economic context, pursuing your own economic interests will inevitably benefit those around you. That is one of the principles of capitalism. If you make a lot of money, you will eventually spend it or invest it, providing jobs for other people.
What about tax deductions based on how many jobs you provide?
Your statement implies that with less taxation, more jobs will be created.
Of course we need more virtue pathbread, but virtue seems to be a subjective term
Morality underlies politics
If you think stealing is moral and acceptable for example, then obviously you’ll be a socialist or a left winger in general.
There's no "morality" in politics. It's just about getting elected in order to enrich yourself, your cronies, and whoever makes the most donations. That goes for the Right-wingers as well.
Yes so you don't talk about what is inconvinient for your stance correct?
I asked if what the man did was racist, still no answer.
Black man takes picture with his knee on a white baby. Tags a slogan for a race-based political movement. But lets not talk about that, cause its inconvinient for the leftist cause lol.
Dirius, of course that shouldn't have happened. But most of us don't feel the need to belabor that it shouldn't have happened. When we say we're against violence, we mean it. We don't see the need to itemize it.
I think it's funny that you use all those emoticons.
People don’t have a proper sense of morality which explains the politics we have today.
In a fair economic context, pursuing your own economic interests will inevitably benefit those around you. That is one of the principles of capitalism. If you make a lot of money, you will eventually spend it or invest it, providing jobs for other people.
When you seek to produce goods and make a profit, you fulfill the needs of the market.A good quote from the Robber Barons, as they stepped on the backs of the poor.
But you essentially espouse the old "trickle-down economics." Which has shown time and again not to work. It's based on an outmoded manufacturing model of the economy.
Today many of the wealthiest Americans do not invest in businesses that create jobs for workers. They offshore their assets to tropical island nations with lucrative tax dodges. Or they invest in hedge funds. Or they retire early and live a life of leisure. You may have noticed that their cleaning staff and groundskeepers don't make a lot of money.
Oftentimes in a well-developed industry (such as clothing manufacturing,) this industry won 't make more profits through more creative innovation or by expanding its management. It makes more profits through a "scramble to the bottom" for the cheapest wages-- on the planet. So jobs get offshored as well, to deeply impoverished countries where people (often teenage girls) work for very little money, often in hazardous conditions.
I could go on in this fashion, but you've probably had enough rebuttals already.
So it is, AppVirgo.
Nah, you'll just be a right-wing thief.
What would a proper sense of morality* look like to you?
(*def. values, telling right from wrong. Not right from left.)
Came across this article and thought it seemed made for this thread:
"If Black lives matter to you and you want to be an ally, you have to take a stand against white solidarity, even when it means calling out racially insensitive posts your friends or family share on Facebook."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/speak-out-family-racist-posts_l_5f0f3ee4c5b65426947a26e6
Removing this post, which was shared with good intentions and got twisted. This was a mistake.
Yet another example of activists attempt to destroy the nuclear family.
"Get your friends and family canceled in the name of the movement".
Sell your brothers and sisters, your parents and grandparents, your chilren and grandchildren to the mob so their lives can get ruined.
There’s nothing wrong with taking breaks from engaging with your friends or family if they’re posting things that are upsetting. But try to reengage ― and recognize that you can unfollow someone and still commit to having a conversation with them, said George James, a marriage and family therapist and a professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
“You can hold them accountable but you don’t have to cut off from them,” he said. “You can send them a text saying that you didn’t like their post and you thought it was offensive.”
Think about the legacy of your own ethnic group. Is it anything to be proud of? Can you take pride in the accomplishments of your own ancestors?