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GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 2:34 pm
Ecurb wrote: March 6th, 2022, 1:34 pm
It is true that we are less equal that any European country -- but not by very much. The difference between the U.S. and many of our (more unequal) Western Hemisphere neighbors is far greater than that between the U.S. and Italy or the U.K.
This ubiquitous whining about economic inequality is tedious, a phony bugaboo contrived by the Left to illustrate the "evils of capitalism."

A free economy is bound to be unequal, because people are unequal --- in the skills, talents, interests, ambitions, and attitudes that create wealth. It is a perfectly natural outcome of those inherent inequalities, and there is nothing evil, or even remarkable, about it.
I disagree (and I have checked that this is a reply and not an edit).

There are optimum levels of inequality. Too much equality brings stagnation, leading to infighting and instability. Too much inequality and there is economic and physical oppression for many, leading to divisions and instability.

America's current instability is largely a result of too much inequality. Just because inequality does good in terms of innovation and achievement does not mean that more of it is better. Not yet.

In the future, more advanced technology will make possible levels of inequality so great that each individual will ultimately be under complete control 24/7.

Humans and ants are organisms that respectively create super-organisms, humanity and ant nests. The collectives act, to some extent, like a single organism, controlled by a single locus of control. In evolution, colonial organisms can become ever more integrated, to the point that they are effectively a single organism, with sea sponges being a clear example, being only slightly more like an organism than a colony.

We can see signs of this growing integration in the wish of many people to be controlled, with autocracies (monarchies under another name) rising.

Extreme inequality is one step on the way to the total control that is the future of humanity. It looks bleak to us now - the idea of individuals living ever smaller, meaner, more restricted lives while ever greater wonders are achieved by The Leadership. However, if you are born into it and don't know any better, no drama.
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Ecurb wrote: March 6th, 2022, 3:53 pm
The important thing is to charitably guarantee food and shelter for everyone (since we can afford it, and since it makes society better for us all).
Then,
Of course this might mean taxing the rich -- you can't get blood from a turnip -- but I wouldn't do that to diminish inequality, but to get needed money from the most reasonable source.
When you move from "charity" (first sentence) to "taxes" (second sentence), thus introducing force into the picture, you transform the act from charitable giving into theft. That is the defining difference between the two.
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The theft is not perpetrated by those doing the taxing but those who routinely "minimise" their taxes to zero but continue to use publicly funded infrastructure.

Trouble is, America has such an urgent need to assist those at home who are struggling and to repair broken infrastructure that I cannot see much potential for American public asking their governments to spend their monies overseas. Meanwhile, in Australia, we have just had entire major towns largely washed away in record breaking rains that have not finished, so we will be caught up helping our own for some time (and there are still many in financial trouble after the 19/20 bushfires).

Europe may find itself dealing with this one with only peripheral help from outside while its allies struggle with self-inflicted wounds.
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GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 7:59 pm

When you move from "charity" (first sentence) to "taxes" (second sentence), thus introducing force into the picture, you transform the act from charitable giving into theft. That is the defining difference between the two.
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Sy Borg wrote: March 6th, 2022, 8:14 pm The theft is not perpetrated by those doing the taxing but those who routinely "minimise" their taxes to zero but continue to use publicly funded infrastructure.
Actually, most of the infrastructure (in the US) is paid for with local taxes, such as property taxes and fuel taxes. There are few loopholes in those. And you need to keep in mind that all taxes on businesses are eventually paid by customers, in higher prices.
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Ecurb wrote: March 6th, 2022, 10:07 pm
GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 7:59 pm

When you move from "charity" (first sentence) to "taxes" (second sentence), thus introducing force into the picture, you transform the act from charitable giving into theft. That is the defining difference between the two.
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Won't do you any good, since the robbers also control the police. :-)
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GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 11:40 pm
Sy Borg wrote: March 6th, 2022, 8:14 pm The theft is not perpetrated by those doing the taxing but those who routinely "minimise" their taxes to zero but continue to use publicly funded infrastructure.
Actually, most of the infrastructure (in the US) is paid for with local taxes, such as property taxes and fuel taxes. There are few loopholes in those. And you need to keep in mind that all taxes on businesses are eventually paid by customers, in higher prices.
But they enjoy protection from the military and the police - for free. Most others have to pay their share, despite being less able to afford it.
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GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 11:40 pm
Sy Borg wrote: March 6th, 2022, 8:14 pm The theft is not perpetrated by those doing the taxing but those who routinely "minimise" their taxes to zero but continue to use publicly funded infrastructure.
Actually, most of the infrastructure (in the US) is paid for with local taxes, such as property taxes and fuel taxes. There are few loopholes in those. And you need to keep in mind that all taxes on businesses are eventually paid by customers, in higher prices.
If by "local" you mean state and local, that is true. The Feds pay about 25%, state and local fuel taxes also pay about 25%, the rest are paid by local and state general funds, which include state business and personal income taxes in most states, which are typically tied to federal income taxes. Thus those who pay little federal income taxes usually don't pay much in state income taxes.
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GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 12:56 pm
chewybrian wrote: March 6th, 2022, 8:47 am
Calling Ukraine the "breadbasket" of Russia or the USSR is like calling a liquor store which you robbed your "liquor cabinet" or "safety deposit box". Russia starved the people in Ukraine while it took their wheat from them!
You're probably referring to Lenin and Stalin's campaign against the Kulaks in 1917-1921, and the subsequent famine. That was genocide, but had support of elements within Ukraine. There has always been pro-independence and pro-Russian sentiments among Ukrainians. (The war on Kulaks targeted not only Ukrainian kulaks, but those throughout the USSR).
They have no more claim to Ukraine than Great Britain has to India right now.
Oh, I agree they have no claim to it. But they do have a legitimate concern about being surrounding by a military alliance they perceive as hostile, and what they consider a betrayal of the West's assurances on that issue. See the link above.
I don't think any reasonable and informed person (including Putin!) thought that NATO ever had or would have had plans to invade Russia. That's just a part of his own propaganda used to create an enemy and justify his own aggressive actions. Putin's real fear of NATO is that his relative power will grow weaker as NATO gets stronger, reducing his ability to carry out his world domination agenda. In addition to their military strength, he fears their economic might, which makes his citizenry more likely to be dissatisfied with their own status. All his alleged fear of NATO is only a boogieman to divert his own peoples' attention and justify his actions in restricting their rights and bullying his neighbors.

The other issue about the West betraying Russia over assurances we would not expand NATO... It's a rather long story and I don't claim to have it all down, but it seems that the devil was in the details. We often paid off Russia (in cash!) when we expanded NATO. They agreed to most or all of it along the way. The "not one inch to the East" comment was just a remark by Baker that never got put into writing or put forth seriously in public.
Upon being briefed of these developments, Clinton reportedly replied, “ ‘so let me get this straight’ ”: All the Russians get out of “ ‘this great deal we’re offering them’ ” is an assurance “ ‘that we’re not going to put our military stuff into their former allies who are now going to be our allies, unless we happen to wake up one morning and decide to change our mind.’ ” Russians would get “a chance to sit in the same room with NATO” but would not have “ ‘any ability to stop us from doing something that they don’t agree with’ ” and could only “ ‘register their disapproval by walking out of the room.’ ”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... de-ukraine

^There is a lot more to it, but that quote does seem typical of the events that happened as NATO did expand. Russia seemed to sign off on most or all of it, but it is convenient for their current plans for them to act surprised and claim they were 'betrayed'.
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chewybrian wrote: March 7th, 2022, 7:26 amI don't think any reasonable and informed person (including Putin!) thought that NATO ever had or would have had plans to invade Russia. That's just a part of his own propaganda used to create an enemy and justify his own aggressive actions. Putin's real fear of NATO is that his relative power will grow weaker as NATO gets stronger, reducing his ability to carry out his world domination agenda.
Putin basically made the same excuse as Dick Cheney in Iraq - confecting a danger that needs to be nullified. Obvious lies that, as usual in these strange times, were given far more credence by grown adults than one might expect.

Still, Putin doesn't strike me as having a world domination agenda, but he clearly wants parts of the USSR back. At present he is playing second banana to China, who does have a plan for world domination. By the time Putin realises what is going on, Russia will be under Chinese control. As their links tighten and more conflicts with the west develop, I expect both nations to shift from authoritarian to totalitarian, while the west shifts to authoritarianism. The joys of war.

With Putin aping Stalin and Xi aping Mao, the Chinese and Russian people are in for hell, whether their nations win or lose this fight that their leaders have picked. If they lose the fight then the people fall into extreme poverty. If they win and gain broader control, then the Russian and Chinese people will never know even the weak freedoms they enjoy today. They will be utterly straitjacketed by the state.

As Russia becomes isolated and ever more dependent on China, Putin will find himself completely dominated by Xi. Russia has been booted from western financial systems so they are now 100% beholden to China. China now decides what Russia does.

China has this rare opportunity to take Russia. Over 600 million people live in north China, which is predicted to have uninhabitable wet bulb temperatures later this century. Where to go? As the ice melts, about 10% of the Earth's land mass in Siberia is opening up arable land and clean, habitable spaces. While Russia's economy is only middling, they have the weapons of a superpower, so they can only be taken over via soft power.

Enter dumb Patsy Putin to hand it all to Xi on a platter :lol:

China needs Russia to be completely dependent and Putin just played right into the CCP's hands. He has sold out his people's autonomy for the sake of his inflated Trumpian ego and hunger for money. I shouldn't laugh because the schadenfreude of watching Putin reduced to a supplicant administrator is be dwarfed by prospect of suffering innocents.

So often it's often the innocent who are made to pay for the sins of the cynical.
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Sy Borg wrote: March 6th, 2022, 4:16 pm
GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 2:34 pm
This ubiquitous whining about economic inequality is tedious, a phony bugaboo contrived by the Left to illustrate the "evils of capitalism."

A free economy is bound to be unequal, because people are unequal --- in the skills, talents, interests, ambitions, and attitudes that create wealth. It is a perfectly natural outcome of those inherent inequalities, and there is nothing evil, or even remarkable, about it.
I disagree (and I have checked that this is a reply and not an edit).

There are optimum levels of inequality. Too much equality brings stagnation, leading to infighting and instability. Too much inequality and there is economic and physical oppression for many, leading to divisions and instability.
You'll have to set forth the mechanism per which economic inequality entails oppression. If Alfie earns $1 million/year, and Bruno only $100,000, in what sense is Bruno "oppressed"? What are the indicators of his oppression?

You seem to be confusing inequality with poverty. The first does not entail the second. Nor does poverty entail oppression (but perhaps we are assuming different definitions of that latter word).
America's current instability is largely a result of too much inequality. Just because inequality does good in terms of innovation and achievement does not mean that more of it is better. Not yet.
The only social problem with inequality is that it provokes envy, which leads to resentment, which can often lead to hostility. What needs to be suppressed is the envy, not the inequality --- which, per se, is harmless.
Humans and ants are organisms that respectively create super-organisms, humanity and ant nests. The collectives act, to some extent, like a single organism, controlled by a single locus of control. In evolution, colonial organisms can become ever more integrated, to the point that they are effectively a single organism, with sea sponges being a clear example, being only slightly more like an organism than a colony.
Serious mistake. Human societies, unlike ants, are NOT eusocial. Eusocial animals fulfill roles in the society that are genetically programmed, and cannot deviate from those roles. Humans have no pre-programmed social roles; they are self-chosen and easily changeable. Civilized human societies are not collectives; they are only collections of unrelated, independent, autonomous individuals whose relationships with other individuals are (for the most part) pragmatic, dynamic, and transient. Unlike bees and ants, humans are free agents.
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GE Morton wrote: March 8th, 2022, 1:38 pm
Sy Borg wrote: March 6th, 2022, 4:16 pm
GE Morton wrote: March 6th, 2022, 2:34 pm
This ubiquitous whining about economic inequality is tedious, a phony bugaboo contrived by the Left to illustrate the "evils of capitalism."

A free economy is bound to be unequal, because people are unequal --- in the skills, talents, interests, ambitions, and attitudes that create wealth. It is a perfectly natural outcome of those inherent inequalities, and there is nothing evil, or even remarkable, about it.
I disagree (and I have checked that this is a reply and not an edit).

There are optimum levels of inequality. Too much equality brings stagnation, leading to infighting and instability. Too much inequality and there is economic and physical oppression for many, leading to divisions and instability.
You'll have to set forth the mechanism per which economic inequality entails oppression. If Alfie earns $1 million/year, and Bruno only $100,000, in what sense is Bruno "oppressed"? What are the indicators of his oppression?

You seem to be confusing inequality with poverty. The first does not entail the second. Nor does poverty entail oppression (but perhaps we are assuming different definitions of that latter word).
No confusion. Inequality and poverty go together. The richest nation on Earth with 330 million people has 37 million people living in poverty, over ten percent. This is a significant factor in the US's sharpening social divisions.

GE Morton wrote: March 8th, 2022, 1:38 pm
America's current instability is largely a result of too much inequality. Just because inequality does good in terms of innovation and achievement does not mean that more of it is better. Not yet.
The only social problem with inequality is that it provokes envy, which leads to resentment, which can often lead to hostility. What needs to be suppressed is the envy, not the inequality --- which, per se, is harmless.
One must teach one's lessers to accept their lowly station with grace. Alas, they simply don't listen to our wisdom and just cause trouble!
// irony

It appears that people have no problems at all with inequality up to a certain point. After that, they will feel exploited. You may think they shouldn't, and just accept their lot, but humans are frequently not rational actors. Some would argue that it's irrational to accept extreme, and rapidly growing, inequality.

GE Morton wrote: March 8th, 2022, 1:38 pm
Humans and ants are organisms that respectively create super-organisms, humanity and ant nests. The collectives act, to some extent, like a single organism, controlled by a single locus of control. In evolution, colonial organisms can become ever more integrated, to the point that they are effectively a single organism, with sea sponges being a clear example, being only slightly more like an organism than a colony.
Serious mistake. Human societies, unlike ants, are NOT eusocial. Eusocial animals fulfill roles in the society that are genetically programmed, and cannot deviate from those roles. Humans have no pre-programmed social roles; they are self-chosen and easily changeable. Civilized human societies are not collectives; they are only collections of unrelated, independent, autonomous individuals whose relationships with other individuals are (for the most part) pragmatic, dynamic, and transient. Unlike bees and ants, humans are free agents.
It is not a mistake at all, let alone a "serious" one :P

Humans are not eusocial YET, which I thought I had made clear. Humans are moving ever closer to eusociality, with some societies moving in that direction faster than others, but that is the direction. Continuing integration leads to the collective become an organism. However, you need to keep in mind that I am talking about evolutionary time scales, not social time scales.


It's all off topic so I'd like to leave it there please, so we can focus on how unwise Putin was to make Russia completely dependent on China. Hmm, what do countries do when another becomes completely dependent on them? Take advantage, perhaps? What might a nation in China's situation do when they:

1) are expected to face an unprecedented humanitarian disaster later this century if they cannot relocate half a billion people because, by then, temperatures in northern China are projected to exceed human tolerance (wet bulb temp of 36C/97F) and

2) can effectively enjoy complete economic control over Siberia to the north, comprising ten percent of the Earth's land mass and rapidly becoming more habitable?
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Earthellism cries for the slaughter in Ukraine.
As leaders are unwilling to compromise, women and children are being killed every hour. It is sometimes necessary to make a deal with the devil to stop the bloodshed. When there is a David versus Goliath conflict, a tie or draw is acceptable like Korea. Leaders must do what is best for the children and not themselves. Putin is already damned to Hell and Zelensky cannot win against a country with nuclear weapons.
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Sy Borg wrote: March 8th, 2022, 9:38 pm
No confusion. Inequality and poverty go together. The richest nation on Earth with 330 million people has 37 million people living in poverty, over ten percent. This is a significant factor in the US's sharpening social divisions.
They are only "poor" per the government's contrived, relative definition of "poverty." Per the World Bank's global definition (less than $1.90/day) virtually no one in the US is poor.

But you're right; this is off-topic.
Humans are not eusocial YET, which I thought I had made clear. Humans are moving ever closer to eusociality, with some societies moving in that direction faster than others, but that is the direction. Continuing integration leads to the collective become an organism. However, you need to keep in mind that I am talking about evolutionary time scales, not social time scales.
Heh. Well, that is pretty speculative.
It's all off topic so I'd like to leave it there please, so we can focus on how unwise Putin was to make Russia completely dependent on China. Hmm, what do countries do when another becomes completely dependent on them? Take advantage, perhaps? What might a nation in China's situation do when they:

1) are expected to face an unprecedented humanitarian disaster later this century if they cannot relocate half a billion people because, by then, temperatures in northern China are projected to exceed human tolerance (wet bulb temp of 36C/97F) and

2) can effectively enjoy complete economic control over Siberia to the north, comprising ten percent of the Earth's land mass and rapidly becoming more habitable?
That is even more speculative. I think Putin's interests are much more immediate.
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GE Morton wrote: March 9th, 2022, 12:44 pm
Sy Borg wrote: March 8th, 2022, 9:38 pm
No confusion. Inequality and poverty go together. The richest nation on Earth with 330 million people has 37 million people living in poverty, over ten percent. This is a significant factor in the US's sharpening social divisions.
They are only "poor" per the government's contrived, relative definition of "poverty." Per the World Bank's global definition (less than $1.90/day) virtually no one in the US is poor.

But you're right; this is off-topic.
Humans are not eusocial YET, which I thought I had made clear. Humans are moving ever closer to eusociality, with some societies moving in that direction faster than others, but that is the direction. Continuing integration leads to the collective become an organism. However, you need to keep in mind that I am talking about evolutionary time scales, not social time scales.
Heh. Well, that is pretty speculative.
It's all off topic so I'd like to leave it there please, so we can focus on how unwise Putin was to make Russia completely dependent on China. Hmm, what do countries do when another becomes completely dependent on them? Take advantage, perhaps? What might a nation in China's situation do when they:

1) are expected to face an unprecedented humanitarian disaster later this century if they cannot relocate half a billion people because, by then, temperatures in northern China are projected to exceed human tolerance (wet bulb temp of 36C/97F) and

2) can effectively enjoy complete economic control over Siberia to the north, comprising ten percent of the Earth's land mass and rapidly becoming more habitable?
That is even more speculative. I think Putin's interests are much more immediate.
It's standard for ideas to be dismissed as "speculative". That one mindless word can undo all the thought and logic behind thoughts about the future. I remember how speculative claims about climate change and global warming were said to be. Idle guesswork tainted by political agendas. Since it has been proved clear that climate change is not only real, but the much scoffed-at predictions about how the weather would change are all coming to pass, I am aware of only a few people - out of many millions - who admitted that they were wrong.


Ukraine's interests are obviously more immediate, but it would be naive in the extreme to believe Xi won't take advantage of this rare opportunity. Putin has basically given Russia away to China. The countries' bond over a perceived common enemy is shallow. China had Siberia until the 1800s so you can be sure they will want it back. They don't need to waste their military to do it, they just wait for Russia to waste theirs. Impoverished by Putin's recklessness and isolated, Russia will fall ever more under Chinese control.
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