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This is less of an opinion than a fact. As a person interested heavily in world history, I can not find a single example of socialism failing on its own merits. Venezuela? Capitalist trade tariffs. USSR? Bested America in the cold war, only fell apart due to perestroika which blended in capitalist tendencies had it not USSR probably would stand today as a competitor to the US - it was western values that killed USSR not socialism, Israel was a successful socialist country for a while but once it went away from socialism it saw this weird thing where their GDP went through the roof while wealth disparity grew - but the GDP was on the rise anyway so its hard to say how much capitalism actually

The statement is not statistically accurate and people need to stop repeating it. There was an 88.7% voter turnout, they won with 43.9% of the vote which means only 38.9% of Germans voted for them. Jordan Peterson likes to pull this one out a lot, but if you look at it numerically, you had just over a 60% chance to not be the thing yet it seems to be the opinion of a lot of armchair psychologists that you would be. You probably would have been an alright person in 30's Germany all things considered.

Think about this. If you work a full time minimum wage job, odds are you still have 0 financial mobility and live paycheck to paycheck. Depending on where you live it might not even be enough for basic necessities. We have to raise minimum wage to match the market inflation that exists without the minimum wage increase at some point as the current minimum wage just isn't sustainable.

HOWEVER, I'd also to point this out. Consumers are not begging to pay more for the same goods and services, and the government doesn't set MSRP. This means businesses and only businesses get to control inflation when it does happen. If businesses must necessarily increase prices of all their items because they

Right now there is a lot of work to be done. There are people starving, people losing their houses, problem distributing necessities, some areas of America without clean tap water, lots of people going without medicine, lots of people going without the psychological help they need, lots of people dying from preventable disease, lots of addiction, lots of people with suboptimal educations and teachers complain that they don't get paid enough for what they're hamstrung into doing. There is a ton of work to be done. However, we're nearing a 40% unemployment rate. There aren't enough "jobs". A job is where you clock in to make someone else's profits go up. A job is where you go to spend the majo

Between being thrust into the spotlight at such a young age over a political idea (whether or not its hers), having that effect her schooling, being ambushed by media at such a young age, having all that happen with a mild mental disorder, and still being willing to put herself out there? I think she comes across as fairly strong willed individual with a lot to say, not just on climate change but I'm sure her day to day life stuff is also interesting just because of how abnormal her life has been. I bet just having a normal sit down talk about life in general would be a bit different and a pleasant experience. No weird stuff though, because that would just be weird.

TLDR: I'd take Greta out

To the average person, sitting around doing nothing is unfathomable. We take up hobbies, we do things. If money were the incentive behind the human drive we wouldn't have teachers at all since they're massively underpaid and don't get many hours. We'd also have a ton of doctors since doctors get paid really well, however there is a shortage of doctors in America. What this should tell you is that people don't choose career paths based on income. They choose it based on what sounds interesting or exciting to them. Think about this for a moment. People choose careers because they are interested in those careers. INTEREST. People get a rush out of working in a field they love, in theory. It doe

You exist in a society, part of that society is owing a due, at the point of transaction that due is no longer your money. The government collects those dues (called taxes), and provides a service for the people. They aren't spending your money, it stopped being your money when you paid taxes. It is the role of the government to provide services for people. If you are opposed to the government doing its job, maybe stop paying taxes and participating in any form of government affairs. Stop driving on roads, stop doing anything in public spaces. Preferably you'd also stop breathing my air.

To illustrate how stupid this is. Imagine you are paying rent to stay in a house. The homeowner then spe