What are you talking about? What sort of “system” was I describing? All I thought I was doing was making the fairly anodyne observation that Jeff Bezos would have nothing if it wasn’t for everyone else who lives in America because they make the entire system of private property beyond what one can personally defend at…

created by the governmentI get you don’t understand how a society works. Your libertarian style claptrap made that pretty clear.

Yup. The changes in the country’s demographics look dire for the future of the gop (though admittedly that’s been said for a while now.

While it is fucked up the murder of an Iowa college student doesn’t get much attention unless the alleged perp can be described as an “illegal”, the victim here isn’t a “person of color”. She’s Spanish. From Spain. White. Not “Spanish” in the way your 70 year old great-uncle refers to Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.

I, and every other American, agreed to allow for the existence of private property beyond what someone can personally protect at any single point in time. I, and every other American, allowed the existence of limited liability business forms which Bezos could use to limit his personal risk and encourage others to…

We kind of tried that approach before the advent of the welfare state starting around the turn of the century through the years following WW2. It wasn’t that awesome. Lots of people died or lived horrible, shitty lives of deprivation, distress, and despair.

What? I’m all about wealth redistribution. The people I named are my enemies, since they were all about preventing wealth redistribution and were totally in to protecting private property rights. Those people should be your buddies. Since they agree with you wealth redistribution and disregarding the sanctity of…

I’m not super familiar with Senator Klobuchar. The first time I have seen her express an opinion about an issue of the day (and that’s becuase I don’t live in MN or follow the ins and outs of specific legislators. I’m sure she is doing things all the time) was recently when she said the elimination of the judicial…

Oh, you’re one of those “libertarians”.

I know there have been many brave men and women fighting to prevent the spread of wealth redistribution.

The constitution? I thought we all had at least agreed the constitution allows for taxation of income at different rates depending on the amount of income being taxed. And that we could tax any type of income from any source. But I guess the radical republican party have decided everything is up in the air now and…

I have no problem with stopping him getting more. I think it would be a great idea to, say, transfer the entire ownership of Amazon to a sovereign wealth fund owned by the US government (meaning all of us). I think we should try and transfer the ownership of basically every company to a giant sovereign wealth fund…

Did you guys all get together and decide to just shout “Venezuela” at anyone an inch to your left? It’s not very convincing since the differences between the US and Venezuela are pretty huge and obvious. Plus there are lots and lots of other societies which have implemented more social control of capital and have been…

Assalaamu alaikum. How is the weather on the Somalia coast at the moment? I bet it’s lovely. Speeding along the water in your boats, RPG and AK-47s at the ready must be exhilarating. Ah, the life of a Somali pirate.

Oh, I didn’t realize Bezos’ wealth was all tied up in some non-liquid asset. Like beanie babies or something. I was under the impression he owned equity in enormous, publicly traded corporations. The kind whose stocks trade hands millions of times every day. I thought there was even a specific place where people go to…

“What rights gives anybody the option of telling another what to do with their money?”

I didn’t know the only two countries in the entire world were Venezuela and the USA. Weird. I thought I’d heard about some other countries which had different economic and political systems to either Venezuela or the USA. But that must have just been rumors and myths. Like Prester John.

Oh no! All the rich people, who are obviously the smartest and bestest and most talented since they are rich, might take their skills elsewhere! Whatever will we do? No, please, don’t go...!

Thanks for the Venezuewhaaaaaaaaa. Do you guys know any other countries?

Terms might matter. But you didn’t point out anywhere terms were being used improperly. And then, kind of ironically, you said someone was bringing “economics” into the discussion about whether taxes apply to share value or money. But what is taxed and how in a basic “is it or isn’t it” way does not have anything to…