Rottweiler,
I didn't change the subject. If there wasn't a wage for casino employees to earn, there would be no casino employees. But that's all beside the point. The point is if it is better for the U.S. if the wealthy are able to use $10,000 dollar chips or $!000 dollar chips.
So again, you just
proved that even while at play, the wealthy are creating jobs. Please allow me to repeat your statement: if there wasn't a wage for casino employees to earn, there would be no casino employees. Um...
exactly. Because of the money the wealthy are spending (in this case, at play), there is a wage to earn. Because there is a wage to earn, the casino hires employees. That's twice now that you have proven that the wealthy create jobs (even while playing).
Next, simply being flippant or dissmissive about the whole issue of society isn't going to win any arguments. As for what you said about surviving and the rest, you have to be some sort of deviant. Or you are just plain stupid. You and Andrew Carnegie would have probably have gotten along well. He believed that the poor wages, poor working conditions and long hours he subjected his workers to as "survival of the fittest." (I say with sarcasm) As if he was doing humanity a favor! I suppose it was just an unintended consequence that it stuffed his pockets full of money. I myself like it that child labor was mainly done away with, that people got better pay and shorter working hours, weekends off and vacaition time, unemployment benefits, etc. And you talk about socialism draging people down! Are you joking or ARE you a joke.
Ok - so you finally took the time to explain what you were attempting to say (thank you - this is the first time you haven't sounded high or just plain bizarre). Because you took the time to articulate it, I now see what you meant. And here is my answer:
The beauty of
freedom - both politically (republic) and economically (capitalism) - is that if you don't like how you are being treated, you are
free to quit and pursue income your own way. If you're a plumber and you don't like how your company is treating you, then quit your job and offer your services to the public for a fee that is worthy of your labor (ie eliminate the middle man). If you are a computer tech and you don't like how your company is treating you, then you are
free to quit your job and offer your services to the public for a fee that you feel is worth of your labor. This literally applies to
any craft in life (brokers, teachers, security guards, landscapers, roofers, etc.).
You then talk about some failed communist systems. That doesn't mean much. There are also plenty of failed capitalist systems. It also failed here during the great depression. Also, I wonder what ever happened with Spain's fascist system. Neither does what you have to say have much to do with National Socialism. It worked in Germany until war changed things.
I noticed you didn't name
one nation in world history that collapsed under true capitalism. Do you know why that is? Because you can't. I also love how you dismiss the facts with "that doesn't mean much" simply because the facts prove you wrong.
"It worked in Germany"? Really? If it worked so well, why does Germany operate under capitalism? Because it didn't work. Because the Nazi control that you are trying praise always ends in misery - including wars.
Here's the bottom line. If you love this bullshit so much, then leave the U.S. Go live in Cuba. Go experience your communist utopia first-hand. Do you know why you communists never do that? Because you realize that freedom is pretty ****'n bad-ass and you realize that you wouldn't have conservatives to mooch off of. You love the extravagant lifestyle that America affords you but you want to complain about it at the same time because you're greedy and you feel your not getting enough of the extravagant lifestyle.
For example, what makes somebody who gets a loan a slave? Well slaves are obliged to do things. Things that they have no choice but to do. That makes them a slave. Unless they simple renege on their loan. But from the things you say, no doubt you would like to see the whole "debters prison" thing done here. Another thing is that there is another reason why people get loans. Not to help them earn money, but just simple because they need money. And some of that would go away if we had a single payer national health system like they have in the rest of the civilized world. Unfortunately, mexicans already have too much incentive to come here.
But people are
not forced to take a loan. They do that of their own
free will. It is not "slavery" to give back what you borrowed. If I borrowed my neighbors broom, is it "slavery" in your twisted mind that I have an obligation to give his or her broom back to them?!?!
On the other hand, you sit here and demand socialism which actually is slavery. I have a gun placed to my head by a government and am forced to surrender most or all of what is mine against my will. That is the very definition of slavery. The only one advocating for slavery is you. And that's what the left always does. Why do you think the Democrats started a Civil War with the Republicans in the 1860's? Because the left has always wanted to force people to provide for them. You people wanted slavery back then, you want slavery today, and you will want slavery 100 years from now.
As to your analogy of having a gun placed to your head, it isn't much different than having a gillotine blade hanging over sonebody's neck. As I mentioned with the French Revolution, sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to be freed.
Well that's some vintage "left-wing" logic for you. Your idea of "freedom" is putting a gun to my head and forcing me into slavery for your benefit. Wow! Well, yeah, I guess that is "liberating" for
you. But for the rest of us, that's slavery. In true capitalism, we are all free. Not just you greedy, lazy people who want to place a gun to my head and make me work against my will for your benefit.
As to your gold nugget question, you said that no poor person ever employed anybody. I just pointed out an instance where it probably did happen.
Uh...hey genius? If that poor person found gold nuggets - at that very moment they ceased to be poor and instantly became wealthy (which is why they were able to hire other people to mine for more gold for them). So once again, you defeat your own argument and prove my point. So as I stated (and you just proved), no poor person in the history of the universe has ever created a single job. Only the wealthy create jobs because you can only hire someone if you have enough money to pay them.
As for what you said about the failure of socialism, it hasn't failed. If it did, there would be no socialist elements in any government. But there are.
Yes - and it continues to create failure. If it weren't for the fact that conservatives have kept a healthy dose of capitalism in America, the U.S. would have collapsed just like Cuba, Cambodia, Vietnam, the former U.S.S.R., etc.