[EA-3167]

You make it sound like we don't already spend trillions each year on a network of social programs, as though that somehow stopped instead of endlessly expanding. You also make it sound like only socialism and fascism exist, as though moderate views aren't even in the mix, despite that being where most people have always been.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58888

We already spend a tremendous amount of our GDP on explicitly socialist programs, I don't see any value in framing that as a thing of the past.

[jtode]

This being ycombinator, before I would attempt to get on the same page with you, I would need to know your income level and how much time you spend walking on sidewalks without bodyguards.

We exist in very different realities; mine is informed by the reality I see around me in the physical world, yours apparently exists in links to economics papers. I suspect that we don't have the same day-to-day experience at all.

As to socialism and fascism... I did not say that only the two exist. I did say that one or the other is coming to America. The idea that this is all going to continue indefinitely, in the USA of all places, is absurd. You people hate aristocracies more than just about anything.