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View Poll Results: What should we do about capitalism?
Replace it with socialism, through parliamentary reforms 5 15.63%
Replace it with socialism, through revolution 5 15.63%
Use more public regulations to counteract some of its consequences 13 40.63%
Scale down public regulations to let the free market run its course 6 18.75%
Nothing, it’s fine as it is 3 9.38%
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Old 10-14-2021, 10:00 PM   #141 (permalink)
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Like Big3 can say it would just weed out the deadbeats but really i think you're a sucker if you enjoy punching into some **** job every day... If you gave out $1000 UBI i could probably either skip punching in entirely and just do gig work or i could get a small part time job. Definitely wouldn't be working full time unless the pay was amazing.
But it would. You don't have lazy people where you work?

Also, yeah I acknowledge that there are BS jobs, but if you can get 10% of the workforce to stay home and eat TV dinners, the working class will have more leverage. So at least it would pay better and be harder to fire people.
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You think only lazy people hate punching in?

The majority of jobs are ****.
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Old 10-14-2021, 10:08 PM   #143 (permalink)
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But it would. You don't have lazy people where you work?

Also, yeah I acknowledge that there are BS jobs, but if you can get 10% of the workforce to stay home and eat TV dinners, the working class will have more leverage. So at least it would pay better and be harder to fire people.
Good point, Toby.
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You think only lazy people hate punching in?

The majority of jobs are ****.
No. I just think lazy people won't get bored of sitting on their ass.

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Good point, Toby.
If I'm supposed to know what this means, I do not.
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I bet somewhere sometime there was one of those word puzzles where the clue was ISM and the answer was capitalism
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I bet somewhere sometime there was one of those word puzzles where the clue was ISM and the answer was capitalism
A crossword puzzle?
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Old 10-14-2021, 10:25 PM   #147 (permalink)
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No. I just think lazy people won't get bored of sitting on their ass.



If I'm supposed to know what this means, I do not.
you really think that any amount of boredom would compel someone to punch a clock at some average job if they didn't need the money? Why wouldn't they just do something fun instead.

Also you never saw Chappelle show???? I mean roots...
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A crossword puzzle?
No like the kind of **** where the clue would be like

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6ft

And the answer is 6 feet undeground...
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you really think that any amount of boredom would compel someone to punch a clock at some average job if they didn't need the money? Why wouldn't they just do something fun instead.

Also you never saw Chappelle show???? I mean roots...
I've watched retirement kill at least two of my family members. When you're not doing anything with your life, when you have no purpose, when no one expects you to show up somewhere, decline sets in. After a few months, it's like a gravitational pull.

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No like the kind of **** where the clue would be like

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6ft

And the answer is 6 feet undeground...
Oh right, what are those called?
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Yeah when you are ****in old as **** and have worked all your life... Those people are already tapped the **** out

You think if you won the lotto and quit your job at 30 you'd be dead in a year?
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