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by r3trohack3r 1188 days ago
> It's called money

I’m sorry but you’re going to need to be more specific. The U.S. isn’t the only country that uses money.

You say capitalism allows for the concentration of power. You’ll need to explain how other systems of government get around concentrating power in a game theory stable way.

Your argument, as written, boils down to “If people didn’t have money they couldn’t use money to bribe politicians and therefore politicians would be free from influence.” And you use that to lay the blame at capitalism’s feet. This is likely not what you think - but it’s how I’ve read what you wrote.

> who drive by downvote without a rebuttal

We don’t comment on downvotes here. That’ll get you more downvotes.

> How I enjoy the salty tears of people

This isn’t Reddit. We don’t communicate this way here.

1 comments

Again, false dichotomies. I only said capitalism allows for concentration of wealth, and therefore power. I said nothing about other systems.

And I spoke about the US specifically because capitalism is implemented differently in different countries. More on this in my responses to your siblings.

It's definitely a matter of the way you've read my post. You're inferring a lot of stuff I didn't say, which doesn't logically follow from what I did say.

As for the edit, I'm just testing a psychological pet theory of mine.