Setting the Record Straight: White Europeans Were Captured and Traded as Slaves for Centuries

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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sorry my guy, but that is absurd. Nothing is created when money is printed. Not your food, or your shelter or your healthcare. All those things require the labor of others to exist. When you produce nothing but take those things from others you are living off the labor of others like any other parasite.

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is partly true. However, the other side of that equation is that the governments figuratively wipe their asses with "your" money. A hundred billion here, another there, nobody's counting! Need more? Print more! Of course it dilutes the value of all other units of currency. BUT THEY ARE DOING IT ANYWAY and at a MUCH MUCH MUCH greater scale than people "living off the labor of others".

EDIT: holy shit in the USA social security is 65% of the US budget? WTF? Still, the pentagon "losing" trillion after trillion ain't exactly drops in the bucket... In Canada we are taxed to death for our social programs and we rightfully take them as something we've paid for.

Basically modern economics are utterly falsified because taxes shouldn't exist; they exist only to keep Joe Average down, since the most universal tax is simple money printing. All the accounting of taxes is just more makework and hammering the working class. Money should be ACTUAL money (gold, silver, copper) and not fiat currency. Then things would make sense and be very, very different.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In Canada we are taxed to death for our social programs and we rightfully take them as something we've paid for.

Except not everyone pays taxes. And those who do not still take. They are leaches.

Many people choose not to work. They think you are stupid for working. They still take all the things you worked for, while thinking you are pathetic.

Meanwhile the government has no incentive to get a good value for the money that was taken from you. You get half the value and then split that with the leaches.

However, the other side of that equation is that the governments figuratively wipe their asses with "your" money.

That is not "the other side" of anything. It's the same government robbing you a different way. Two wrongs don't make it right.

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Except not everyone pays taxes. And those who do not still take. They are leaches.

Mostly immigrants. Most Canadians I know of make it a point of honor to 'contribute' and be useful members of society, just like in the Scandinavian nations. You can't extrapolate the US entitlement mentality to other nations, it is fairly unique to that, and 3rd world countries.