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Why Young People are Becoming Socialists in One Graph

Gamewell45 said:
Housing is expensive because of the capitalist mindset of "make as much profit as possible" and they are doing a terrific job of doing it. The Growth Act of 1992 didn't hamper build-able land, it preserved a lot of what we had. Capitalists need to learn what that term "urban renewal means. Rebuilt on existing land with modern homes. Clean up the ghetto's and old industrial sites as opposed to destroying what open land we have left.

If things were left unregulated, ecological disasters like the "love Canal" would be a normal occurrence in the name of money.
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Some of the most expensive housing in the country is in San Francisco. You really have to look hard to find a cold-hearted capitalist there, and God help you if you're a Republican. And yet I haven't heard of anyone selling their home below market, have you? If you owned a home in San Francisco worth, say, $2 million, how much would you sell it for? What would be an "affordable" price? :confused:
 
phattonez said:
The conservatives call me a liberal and the liberals call me a Nazi. I must be doing something right.
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What a bizarre perspective. 99% of people say you're wrong, therefore you must be right? Is that the same as someone saying "I understand that the the reason you say you don't love me is because you really do" or "she said 'no' but she really wanted it?"
 
Ahlevah said:
Some of the most expensive housing in the country is in San Francisco. You really have to look hard to find a cold-hearted capitalist there, and God help you if you're a Republican. And yet I haven't heard of anyone selling their home below market, have you? If you owned a home in San Francisco worth, say, $2 million, how much would you sell it for? What would be an "affordable" price? :confused:
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San Francisco is the home of woke capitalists, not socialists. They love their billions.
 
joko104 said:
What a bizarre perspective. 99% of people say you're wrong, therefore you must be right? Is that the same as someone saying "I understand that the the reason you say you don't love me is because you really do" or "she said 'no' but she really wanted it?"
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Let's just say that the right people don't like me, and the right people do.
 
Individual said:
If it can be used to compel others by a willingness to spend their hard earned money to provide your or their needs/wants, fine.
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This is incoherent. What are you talking about?
 
Individual said:
Obviously, the value you place on logos.
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And what's wrong with that? You seem to imply that our only value is our consumptive ability.
 
phattonez said:
And what's wrong with that? You seem to imply that our only value is our consumptive ability.
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I didn't say anything was wrong with it. And neither have I EVER implied any value to our consumptive ability.
 
Individual said:
I didn't say anything was wrong with it. And neither have I EVER implied any value to our consumptive ability.
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Then on what basis are you eliminating 40% of the population?
 
phattonez said:
Then on what basis are you eliminating 40% of the population?
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What did my question "Philosophically speaking, what gives human life value greater than any other form of life?" have to do with eliminating 40% of the population?
 
Individual said:
What did my question "Philosophically speaking, what gives human life value greater than any other form of life?" have to do with eliminating 40% of the population?
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How are you selecting the 40%?
 
phattonez said:
How are you selecting the 40%?
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What 40% are you talking about?

Again, the question was: "Philosophically speaking, what gives human life value greater than any other form of life?"
 
Individual said:
What 40% are you talking about?

Again, the question was: "Philosophically speaking, what gives human life value greater than any other form of life?"
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And I told you: logos. You tell me what you think makes some lives expendable and others valuable.
 
Ahlevah said:
Some of the most expensive housing in the country is in San Francisco. You really have to look hard to find a cold-hearted capitalist there, and God help you if you're a Republican. And yet I haven't heard of anyone selling their home below market, have you? If you owned a home in San Francisco worth, say, $2 million, how much would you sell it for? What would be an "affordable" price? :confused:
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They could sell that house in a heartbeat if they listed it for 150k. Of course the likelihood of that occurring is about as much as hitting powerball. Fortunately not every city or town in the US is like San
Francisco. There are plenty of places where the cost of housing is most reasonable.
 
phattonez said:
San Francisco is the home of woke capitalists, not socialists. They love their billions.
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I guess a "moneyed socialist" is an oxymoron, eh? Socialist plans for creating Utopia usually involve getting someone else to pay for it. So maybe it was just homeless people booing John Hickenlooper when he said before California Democrats, "Socialism is not the answer." :doh Or maybe they were fellow travelers--socialist wannabes? :confused:

 
phattonez said:
And I told you: logos. You tell me what you think makes some lives expendable and others valuable.
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How a person represents him/her existence as an advantage/disadvantage to others is probably a good start, or at least a much more reasoned answer than "logos".

And the 40% you referred to?
 
Individual said:
How a person represents him/her existence as an advantage/disadvantage to others is probably a good start, or at least a much more reasoned answer than "logos".

And the 40% you referred to?
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You referred to the 40% yourself: the one's who "don't need to be replaced."

Now THERE'S a candidate for euphemism of the year!
 
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