POG Politics Thread

[amplify]

Originally Posted by Zurvan

There was one guy in the corner who interrupted every policy discussion with "taxation is theft and government is organized crime"

that guy

[Zurvan]

Originally Posted by kokiri

zurv, what will you be running for? An MP?

MPP (provincial parliament). I might run for MP in the Federal election, but that requires money up front (it gets returned), and the party can only pay for a certain number of candidates.

Originally Posted by amplify

that guy

It's not so much the content of what he was saying, it was the utter uselessness of it in that context. That's not a campaign tactic.

[amplify]

Originally Posted by Zurvan

It's not so much the content of what he was saying, it was the utter uselessness of it in that context. That's not a campaign tactic.

It's Quixotic I admit, but I'm a sucker for tilting at windmills.

[clowntable]

Originally Posted by amplify

Oh hey, I listened to some of that guy's podcast series on Das Kapital. He certainly knows that thing inside out.

And yet he ignores all the fundamental criticism.

I think it's always funny (in a really sad way) that socialists and the like don't recognize that the reason for all the crisis they blame on capitalism is in fact their own retardo influence on capitalism and the curroption of this beautifull idea towards a "socialism of the corrupt and ethically ruthless"

[Luckbox Inc]

'capitalism' is working exactly as it was intended to work

[kokiri]

Originally Posted by amplify

It's Quixotic I admit, but I'm a sucker for tilting at windmills.

question came up the other day: which came first quixotic, or don quixote?

[amplify]

Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc

'capitalism' is working exactly as it was intended to work

just like aids and crack amirite

[amplify]

Originally Posted by kokiri

question came up the other day: which came first quixotic, or don quixote?

wat? quixotic refers solely to don quixote, cervantes didn't name the character after an existing adjective, like don handsome or something.

[kokiri]

Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc

'capitalism' is working exactly as it was intended to work

if you only knew how much effort it took to not mention your name in reference to this guy...

[Tao1]

Capitalism is fundamentally flawed when reviewing it as the best system out for humanity/life in the really really long run. I feel it rests on two main problems. The first is that the supposed game theoretical optimum (perfectly suited to human need) does not ever take place due to the second problem. Which is that it is concerned with people. Very very shortsighted, shortlived people.
Like in democratic politics, short term opportunism ruins long term viability/utility.

[Zurvan]

What's a better way to allocate scarce resources than through the free exchange of them?

[dmk]

Reason: So I didnt word it exactly right, you get the gist though right?

no

[pwnsall]

give them all to me

[Zurvan]

I mean: All decisions made on the planet earth are made by humans. Selfish, short sighted, short lived humans, all acting in (what they consider to be) their best interests.

Given that fact, and it is a fact, what alternative is there that's better than capitalism?

[kokiri]

Originally Posted by Tao1

Capitalism is fundamentally flawed when reviewing it as the best system out for humanity/life in the really really long run. I feel it rests on two main problems. The first is that the supposed game theoretical optimum (perfectly suited to human need) does not ever take place due to the second problem. Which is that it is concerned with people. Very very shortsighted, shortlived people.
Like in democratic politics, short term opportunism ruins long term viability/utility.

i'm guessing winston churchill would probably have put it a bit more pithily.