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No one is a slave in America, so, once again, you are just raising a non-issue, something completely lacking in any significance. People of certain religions could not take part in politics. Black people were oppressed(enslaved) in America for a long period, they did not have the right to vote and ...

Inequality is a non-issue. We've already been over this above. If you are jealous of people who have more than you, and you think that makes them evil, then you are nothing but a jealous person full of envy, and politics of envy is for the feeble-minded, count me out. Then are you in favour of revo...

I would largely let the people manage themselves. Unless something can truly be shown to be a public good, Lets have a hypothetical situation. Suppose most of the population, say, 80%, considers their lives to be unequal by default. Most of the land is owned by the 20% of the population and most of...

Monopolies are really hard to come by, and are no where near the problem some people claim them to be. Maybe because there are laws that prevent monopolies from manifesting? And your pseudoscience about value versus wealth does not get you anywhere. I didn't know we were talking about pseudo-scienc...

No, what I did was debunked your claim that value comes from the worker That was your claim, your assertion, remember? I said wealth comes from the labourer which comes from nature. Well, if true, then why doesn't a laborer just randomly doing labor create value? Nothing else should be needed but a...

The laborer? Okay then, what happens if a laborer works his ass off digging a hole, and then fills it up again, then digs the hole back up, and fills it in again, and he does this, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year? This example makes no sense. If everyone did this ...

Since capitalism has created more wealth, for more people, in the entire history of the planet, you are contradicting yourself. This is incorrect. It is the labourer that creates the wealth that necessarily comes from nature. Capitalism is a mode of production which consequently influences and moti...

No, Bill Gates couldn't buy my home. The idea is laughable. He can't force me to do anything, despite all of his money. You can't be this naive? Mass wealth increases the power you have over society and how you can influence it. And you are assuming that you know what will "maximize the eelfar...

Inequality is a non-issue. What is a non-issue? Should we scar the faces of all the good-looking people to make the ugly people, especially me, feel better? This doesn't make sense. Wealth is not something that is a natural quality, it shifts depending on the society. Also, it's not just to make yo...