Thanks for calling me a scumbag.Both condescending and putting up strawmen? Kudos!So you are saying that you are a rich person and you are better off after having your wealth tsken than you were by keeping it?It's a tradeoff. Hence me objecting to your statement we are claiming something for nothing is possible.
I dont believe that.
but we come from two different places
the Old World and the New
yours a feudal society of kings and serfs
And me the offspring of free men
Men and women who braved the danger and hardship of conquoring a new land because they wanted a better life
and you?
the residue that the adventurous people left behind
First I didn't say rich people are better of if they have their wealth taken. I said explicitly that they weren't.
What I did say was that we as a society pit the prioritiy in the needs of those that are the weakest by demanding from the strongest that they contribute a proportionally higher part of their income.
To make it less abstract. We find it more important that a poor person can still enjoy good health and is capable of giving his children the highest level of education that their intellect can sustain. Than we find it important that a wealthy person can take their fourth vacation abroad.
To be clear we have rich people and we have poor people but there is simply a smaller gap between them.
In other words "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.'
thanks for revealing your Marxist cloven hoof, scumbag.
I've been here for 4 years and in that time talking to people like you has made it clear that none of you know, or even worse, care to know, the distinctions between Marxism, Socialism, or Communism. As such trying to sling Marxist at me is kind of like a 3-year-old yelling fuck. Like a 3-year-old you have no comprehension of the term. Unlike a 3-year-old and in the full knowledge that you don't really care I'll give you the reason why I'm not a Marxist.
Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen ( From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.) Is the concept that once a fully developed Communist society is established the production would skyrocket to the extent that no person would ever want for anything. I don't believe that. For one thing, human nature will always want more. Greed is a real thing for almost everybody. For another eliminating wants most likely would take any need to achieve away ultimately collapsing society.
What Social Democracies do is trying to give everybody the same starting place and try to ensure that everybody will always have their BASIC needs fulfilled.