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.
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.
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.
Let’s dissect this. First, the VA’s failures aren’t due to funding—throwing money at bureaucracy doesn’t fix structural rot. The Pentagon loses billions annually, yet you trust these same institutions with healthcare? Systemic barriers exist, but your solution—confiscatory taxation—punishes success and stifles innovation. Those “hoarded” offshore funds?
They’re often reinvested globally, creating opportunities even you benefit from indirectly.
As for “trickle-down,” it’s a strawman. Real economics is about voluntary exchange, not forced redistribution. And taxation isn’t theft when limited to essential services, but your vision expands it into outright plunder to fund utopian pipedreams.
You accuse me of privilege, yet your ideology infantilizes the poor, denying their agency. Empowerment comes from meritocracy, not handouts. And yes, I benefit from roads and schools—I pay for them. But healthcare and housing? Those aren’t rights; they’re commodities. Redefining them as such is semantic tyranny.
Lastly, hypocrisy? I advocate for personal responsibility within the system. You want to burn it down and replace it with a leviathan. Careful—history’s graveyard is full of such “noble” experiments.
Oh Ryan, still tilting at windmills I see. Let me ask you this—when has government-run anything not turned into a bloated, inefficient mess? You want healthcare? Look at the VA—vets dying on waiting lists while bureaucrats shuffle papers. Housing projects? Breeding grounds for crime and dependency. Your utopia requires confiscating wealth from those who earned it to subsidize those who didn’t. That’s not compassion—it’s theft with a smiley face. And spare me the “billionaire” boogeyman. Those dragons, as you call them? They create jobs, fund innovation. Meanwhile, your “free” everything disincentivizes work, ambition, personal responsibility. You want to help people? Teach them to fish. Don’t just steal my catch and call it charity.
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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.