PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
We humans exist as part of a larger society. Together, we have combined power. Socialism is nothing but we humans looking out for ourselves.
Capitalism is based on greedy humans looking out for themselves. Their power is having lots of money.
It is possible to operate in the capitalist world in an altruistic way if one adheres to a philosophy of win/win dealing.
People who think that in order for them to win, somebody else has to lose are not helpful to society. They are only helpful to themselves. And they may cause damage to others as a consequence of their selfishness.
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People who have high morals look out for others and are considerate of what happens to others. They understand the logic of positive interaction being mutually beneficial.
People who believe that business deals should be beneficial for both parties, or all parties, have high morals, because their position is based on consideration for others.
When we are considerate of others, when we are good to others; that good goes out into the world, gets passed from person to person, and then it comes back to us. That's why we have a saying that what goes around comes around. It works monetarily because when we give money to those who have none, they spend it, and that makes the economy larger. It raises the GDP. Helping the poor raises the GDP, and a strong GDP benefits everyone.
And the converse of what goes around comes around is also true. So if you are bad to other people, then bad things happen to you. You hurt China with tariffs, their stock market goes down, people who are invested in that lose, and it drags OUR stock market down. It's all interconnected in the collective.
Hence, it is morally correct to be a socialist, to embrace living as a member of the great collective of humans we call society.
It is morally correct to believe in win/win philosophy, and it is morally defunct to believe in win/lose.
We can have positive capitalism, which is properly regulated by our government, which derives it's power from the collective of individuals.
We can have capitalism mixed with socialism. This is indicated because it is a win/win deal. When we take care of those who cannot care for themselves, that energy comes back to us as good energy. That helps us do better in life, and enjoy life more.
And, of course, enjoying life is the goal. Some morally defunct people believe that getting rich is the goal, but that is shallow thinking. Why do they want to get rich? Because they believe that being rich leads to being happy. Well, if one can simply manage to be happy without being fabulously rich, then you've beaten the myth of wealth being the only way to be happy.
People who use win/lose dealing to get rich can never really be happy because they will always know that they had to cheat someone else to get it. And that is wrong, because that is based on the belief that wealth is created by taking it away from someone else. Which is ridiculous because it's not like humans evolved into a world with bunches of money laying around. Humans invented wealth. Humans BUILT wealth. The way wealth is created is by building or creating something valuable.
Those who seek to gather wealth by getting it away from others are shallow, and do not understand the big picture. They don't see how they fit into the world, and they also like to pretend that we are not part of a collective. They will even go so far as to come onto a website on an internet (the same internet which was created by many humans working together as a part of a collective,) to proclaim that THEY are not part of any collective; that THEY are 'individuals.' How absurd.
Well, of course they are individuals. Despite what they may believe or say, they are individuals who exist as part of a big collective of humans on Planet Earth. And each individual makes whatever contribution they can to the collective, sometimes freely, other times only as a reward for performing a task called work. The combined efforts of all those individuals contributing to the collective advances.
Wealth inequality is reported to have grown since President Trump has been in office. Last year, 43 people in the world owned as much as the poorest 3.7 billion people. This year, only 26 people own as much as the poorest 3.8 billion people. Improperly regulated capitalism is funneling the productivity of the entire world into concentrated wealth pockets owned by a handful of fewer and fewer people as poverty grows.
Improperly regulated runaway capitalism is hurting society more than it is helping it. We need more education, and more people speaking out for common sense policy from government.
We, The People, need to get better informed; and flex our power of numbers to counter the power of big money wielded by the rich.
Capitalism is based on greedy humans looking out for themselves. Their power is having lots of money.
It is possible to operate in the capitalist world in an altruistic way if one adheres to a philosophy of win/win dealing.
People who think that in order for them to win, somebody else has to lose are not helpful to society. They are only helpful to themselves. And they may cause damage to others as a consequence of their selfishness.
PoliTalker anti-troll thread thief disclaimer: If this thread is stolen, plagiarized, will the thief have the nerve to use the entire OP, word for word? Including this disclaimer? If you want my take on it, you'll have to post to this original PoliTalker thread. I refuse to be an enabler for online bullies, so I won't post to a stolen thread. I won't even read it. If you don't see me, PoliTalker, posting in this thread check the author. This might be a hijacked thread, not the original.
People who have high morals look out for others and are considerate of what happens to others. They understand the logic of positive interaction being mutually beneficial.
People who believe that business deals should be beneficial for both parties, or all parties, have high morals, because their position is based on consideration for others.
When we are considerate of others, when we are good to others; that good goes out into the world, gets passed from person to person, and then it comes back to us. That's why we have a saying that what goes around comes around. It works monetarily because when we give money to those who have none, they spend it, and that makes the economy larger. It raises the GDP. Helping the poor raises the GDP, and a strong GDP benefits everyone.
And the converse of what goes around comes around is also true. So if you are bad to other people, then bad things happen to you. You hurt China with tariffs, their stock market goes down, people who are invested in that lose, and it drags OUR stock market down. It's all interconnected in the collective.
Hence, it is morally correct to be a socialist, to embrace living as a member of the great collective of humans we call society.
It is morally correct to believe in win/win philosophy, and it is morally defunct to believe in win/lose.
We can have positive capitalism, which is properly regulated by our government, which derives it's power from the collective of individuals.
We can have capitalism mixed with socialism. This is indicated because it is a win/win deal. When we take care of those who cannot care for themselves, that energy comes back to us as good energy. That helps us do better in life, and enjoy life more.
And, of course, enjoying life is the goal. Some morally defunct people believe that getting rich is the goal, but that is shallow thinking. Why do they want to get rich? Because they believe that being rich leads to being happy. Well, if one can simply manage to be happy without being fabulously rich, then you've beaten the myth of wealth being the only way to be happy.
People who use win/lose dealing to get rich can never really be happy because they will always know that they had to cheat someone else to get it. And that is wrong, because that is based on the belief that wealth is created by taking it away from someone else. Which is ridiculous because it's not like humans evolved into a world with bunches of money laying around. Humans invented wealth. Humans BUILT wealth. The way wealth is created is by building or creating something valuable.
Those who seek to gather wealth by getting it away from others are shallow, and do not understand the big picture. They don't see how they fit into the world, and they also like to pretend that we are not part of a collective. They will even go so far as to come onto a website on an internet (the same internet which was created by many humans working together as a part of a collective,) to proclaim that THEY are not part of any collective; that THEY are 'individuals.' How absurd.
Well, of course they are individuals. Despite what they may believe or say, they are individuals who exist as part of a big collective of humans on Planet Earth. And each individual makes whatever contribution they can to the collective, sometimes freely, other times only as a reward for performing a task called work. The combined efforts of all those individuals contributing to the collective advances.
Wealth inequality is reported to have grown since President Trump has been in office. Last year, 43 people in the world owned as much as the poorest 3.7 billion people. This year, only 26 people own as much as the poorest 3.8 billion people. Improperly regulated capitalism is funneling the productivity of the entire world into concentrated wealth pockets owned by a handful of fewer and fewer people as poverty grows.
Improperly regulated runaway capitalism is hurting society more than it is helping it. We need more education, and more people speaking out for common sense policy from government.
We, The People, need to get better informed; and flex our power of numbers to counter the power of big money wielded by the rich.
