“in the early days of the industrial revolution that wealth was allowed to concentrate at the top, in the hands of industrialists and robber-barons”

Nope, I wash my hands thoroughly after wiping my arse.

“In some cases, keyboards can be even germier than a toilet seat” - yes but can I just point out that the germs on my keyboard didn’t come out of my arse.

I just assumed it was like the seal on a tube of Pringles. Once you pop....

I don’t have to, because someone will find a way to profit from it and do it for me. Personally I have found another field in life, and make my profit from my own business. That’s the beauty of the division of labor.

Nope, capitalism has improved the lives of everyone across the board. You don’t need to own property. Compare the living standards of the “poor” in capitalist countries with the poor in countries which have not enjoyed the benefits of liberal democracy and free trade. Compare the living standards of the “poor” now…

Typical deranged idiot. I only reply when someone has posted a reply to one of my posts and I get a notification - I can’t help it if you’re replying to 4 year old posts. And I really don’t think you know how an argument works. You seem to think it’s unfair that I have counter arguments to your revisionist BS. News…

Great argument. You must get so tired of polishing all of those debating trophies.

They aren’t socialist. Scandinavian countries produced most of their wealth during the time between the end of WWII and the 70’s, during which their economies were freer, taxes were lower and their welfare states were smaller. After vastly increasing their welfare states in the 70’s, economic growth slowed to a crawl…

Wall Street has an essential function in the economy and companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft would have never gotten where they are today without bankers.

It’s not bullshit at all. The New Deal severely crippled capital spending, and capital spending is what drives the economy. Huge restrictions were placed on businesses at a time when what they needed was to operate freely.

This is just abject nonsense. Even when you factor in such things as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, life was far more horrific before the Industrial Revolution. Do you know why kids worked? It certainly wasn’t because they made good workers - they make terrible workers. They tire easily, they aren’t good at following…

What we’ve got now isn’t capitalism. It’s capitalism strangled by a state which will always be run by vote-seeking, power drunk statists who make political currency out of short-term, feelgood policies which throttle economic growth. But despite this, the capitalist side of the equation has still managed to give us…

That’s not an argument, it’s just a teenage slur.

Of course they do. Otherwise we wouldn’t have any stuff to buy. You seem to have an extremely narrow, cartoonish perception of capitalism that’s no doubt been clumsily stitched together from slogans, pamphlets and Mother Jones.

I feel so triggered right now.

Buzzfeed is the mother of this genre, and it’s been copied so fucking prolifically I don’t even know where to begin. Even my shitty local hometown newspaper has started peppering its output with Buzzfeed catchphrases and styles.

I feel for this man. I mean what a fucking idiot, has he never heard of a toilet brush?

GTimeReport - https://www.gtimereport.com/
I still use it every week. I use it to generate an Excel file containing a table of all of my employees’ appointments. From there I export the data from Excel into a text file and use a small C program that I wrote to generate the info I need to create my customers’ invoices.

What was the point of the anecdote if not to make a point about something? You weren’t just shooting the shit. You related an “anecdote” which was intended to make a point about men interrupting women, and now that you’ve been called out about it you’re furiously back pedaling. I would cut you some slack if you hadn’t…