re: OT-: Let's Talk Socialism

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Bill Gates has done more for humanity than any politician ever could

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By perfecting an idea and a product which was developed collectively in a truly soicialist fashion by the taxpayers of the United States. A product and an idea which would be meaningless without the engine that drives, which was also made available to the general public through a collective effort by taxpayers and a product and idea which communicates through a mechanism brought to the general public through another collective effort by taxpayers. Bill Gates has done a lot for humanity but he did not do it without assistance from collective human effort.....we are dependent on one another, especially when it comes to doing the unimaginable.

Unfettered capitalism is as destructive to mankind as the most brutal communist economies, arguably more so. Drug cartels are a good example....survival of the most willing....willing to commit any atrocities to meet their goals without any collective regulation because they simply choose not abide by any collective regulation. Russia was a far better place to live under communists than parts of Mexico and Central America when drug cartels manage to seize control...thus the reason the communists managed to stay in power in Russia for what, 75 years, where the drug cartels only manage to do so for a fraction of that time because their system of governance, as it were, is untenable nd the collective eventually reigns them in.

A combination of collective effort and the freedom to pursue ideas like Bill Gates does is why the US is the greatest experiment mankind has ever enjoyed. It takes a constant vigilance because people will exploit opportunities, the collective will reign them, special interests will manage to overstep legislatively and the collective will reign them in.....sensible taxation to fund collective efforts aNd sensible regulation is the sweet spot