they turned off comments because they know that they are wrong

They turned of the comments so it would look like the liberals can't answer the question. It's a cheap trick.

If you’re a liberal who posts to “politics” with comments disabled, you at least have a decent reason, given the tremendous alt-right bias over there

If you’re a conservative who posts to “politics” with comments disabled, then you’re just a snowflake, plain and simple

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Good catch!

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

I had a bit of a laugh at that one.

Though you've created a wonderful space here in which to do so!

[The answer is that centrally-planned economies suck and anyone with a desire to live for themselves knows it.]

I don't support a completely planned economy, but some suckiness is part of life and we Americans need to grow up and accept that fact.

I think part of American-ness, at least a very common theme, is that we're willing to work our butts off if we want something done. Nobody says it'll be pretty or painless. I'm sure we've all heard the, "I worked two jobs in college to pay the bills, etc." story and many many similar versions.

The difference between that and a centrally-planned sucky life is that we CHOOSE to endure the pain because we want to earn something ourselves, not be cogs in some bureaucrats economic plan.

Sure, choice is better than a lack of choice, but it's not the only, ultimate good. Think about it in terms of abortion. You don't believe choice is the most important issue, right?

The two issues are wildly different and comparing them would be an exercise in the False Equivalence Fallacy.

I disagree.

The abortion debate centers over a woman's choice to end the budding human life growing within her body. It is entirely grounded in ethics and morality.

Central planning vs market economy debates focus on whether an individual should serve themselves (and in doing so each other, due to basic market-economy principles) or sacrifice their own free will to do the bidding of society at large. It focuses on the balance between serving the will of each individual vs maximizing the efficiency of a society's economy and is entirely grounded in economics and sociological principles. You can't translate one to the other. Apples to oranges.

What if you had the correct “X” (think bone marrow, antibodies, something like that) in your body that could save another persons life. Should the government FORCE you to donate that part of your body to keep someone else alive? Should you be held accountable if you choose not to assist them live and they die?

I have every right as an individual to not lift a finger to save a drowning toddler being swept down a stream.

And that toddler's father has every right as an individual to slap the shit out of me for refusing to do so.

To what degree individuals should have freedom of choice based on how those choices affect others are also ethical and moral issues. Thats how the issues do translate.

Apples an oranges are both fruit, and can be compared and contrasted.

Now, if you think individual economic self-serving is an absolute which benefits everyone, not only will I disagree with you but so will lots of Catholic scholars and writers.

(I don't believe women's right to choose abortion is an absolute either, BTW.)

Black lung go brrr.

landlords dont work their butts off.

So the American dream is entirely to be born into a land baron lifestyle?

I didn't say that.

I know, but I used it to highlight the silliness of pointing out a singular occupation which is more administrative in nature when we're having such a broad discussion.

It's not silly though. There are many land owners in America. Many of them don't "Work their butts off." They hire other people to do the work for them while they just collect the money. People who handle the administrative work, etc.

Then there's slumlords. Who are like the above, except they don't hire anyone at all and just do the bare minimum.

The issue with that is it looks only at the present, which in the art of rhetoric is only useful for assigning value. Their current actions are indeed not particularly trying, but in order to assign blame/virtue we need to shift to the past. How did they get into that position? Did they earn it through hard work? Was it given to them by a predecessor? How did that predecessor come to own the land?

If someone grew up working hard and started acquiring property, investing responsibly, and in general putting in the effort to build their own empire, where is the problem in their reaping the rewards down the line? As far as I'm concerned, that's about as pretty of a golden parachute as one could weave themself.

Now, if said property owner did nothing but inherit the holdings and uses them as a cop-out from actually working hard at something in life, or someone works hard but selfishly runs the place like a slum and doesn't treat those below with dignity and consideration, then I'd side with you and say they're not exactly being good examples of the ideal I'm trying to convey (and in using that litote I mean they could run the gamut from mildly distasteful to sewer scum).

It's the user ChinaOwnsBiden. He disables comments on EVERY SINGLE MEME of his!

Gosh, I wonder why?

I see lots of memes on that stream complaining about liberals turning off comments - yet almost every post with comments turned off that I've seen has been MAGA.

A better question, why didn't they caravan to Haiti which is more capitalist than us?

I’m gonna guess they can’t get the boats necessary to get there. Lol

But your point is valid. The countries they are coming from are more “capitalist” than our own.

They use boats to get to USA though..

Who is “they?”

"...Capitalism is evil and Socialism is the answer."

Capitalism has flaws and some of the precepts of Socialism can address and ameliorate some of those flaws. But I guess that's not simplistic enough to sell.

Shhhhh….reason and logic are worthless with these people. They think in black and white. Mostly white.

Says the guy who doesn't understand what the US means by aid or the global sanctions regime

Who said capitalism is evil and socialism is the answer?

Strawtard Libman

Didn't make that meme- was just making fun of it.

So why is there a “labor shortage?”

There isn't one

you are a freaking moron. you know that? Do you take pride in that?

https://hbr.org/2021/06/attracting-talent-during-a-worker-shortage