Quote from: RE on Mar 15, 2025, 06:39 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 15, 2025, 05:15 PMDon't recall ever ranting about privilege, don't ever recall mentioning how little of that I ever was born with or grew along the way

You must have forgot to take your Alzheimer's meds.  Every time you talk about my fictional silver spoon you regale us with your poverty filled childhood.

Far as the utility of your own website goes, no cooler there.  Off you go.

RE

And my silver spoon means I can pay for my coffee and croissant on the way to work in only twenty minutes after I get there.  But that does not stop him from bringing up the expensive carz he alleges I have.

If you did not have that this would do:

QuoteHow does a 401k fit into your world of "work"? It isn't obvious, but aren't market investments, including purchasing real estate, fair game for everyone, including the $30/hr working man?

Being critical of normal behavior would have done.  Reactionaries are always trying to confuse obvious issues.  Here the reactionary is exceptionally diabolical. Social security should be strong enough to make 401Ks a relic, it is an inferior retirement instrument in an enlightened socialist society.  But there is a mental trick to flip the tables at play.  Their failure as reactionaries to make the distinction between personal and private property is their stock and trade.  Trying to always put the words 'all owning property bad' in our mouths.  That is why he brings it up.  The hope is that I get pissed off and go off on a rant.  Portray myself as irrational.  Instead of:

Part of a strong social program should be allowing elective deductions with a 5% rate backed by the government.  Mention of real-estate and such you also mentioned to confuse the issue.  A working man MUST (it is a fucking right) be able to preserve some of his/hers own dead labor in an investment.  Key being his/her/it's OWN dead labor, that would earn a government backed 5% should I be king.  Society rewarding responsible behavior.  I'm down with it.

* As I toil at my McJob with the brainpower to have figured out profit sharing could double my wage in a heartbeat, I recall that I work at the end of a third world supply chain where the number of people getting screwed are countless.  I might actually be getting a fair shake if it were all balanced out.  I might be the mathematical anomaly.  Doin ok with a reasonable chance of passing through the eye of the needle.