Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
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"That's how capitalism works."
"You're right. But that's a dumb way to do things, we should try something else."
"No dude you just don't understand how capitalism works."
I don't want more. I'm doing fine. I want the family where two people are working four jobs and still don't have a month's rent in the bank to have more. I want the money I kick into the community kitty to go to them, rather than funding multiple private space programs for multiple billionaires.
Idk if you're the dude i was responding to but that is the opposite of what that person claimed to care about.
Anyway, all of those things can be done without socialism, and I actually know for a fact that the best method is to not kneecap your economic system and just change your social safety nets. Taxing people and using it for social services is not socialism.
Privatization of space is absolutely a good thing tho and we should subsidize the fuck out of it while still remaining revenue-positive over running the programs ourselves.
NASA has done more amazing shit since that privatization than in like 3 decades before it, and their goals are only increasing. It's really worked out. I was extremely unhappy when the policy was enacted but I'm happy to admit I was wrong and Obama was right.
Who said anything about socialism?
Half a dozen people who've yelled at me today.