Anonymous #1 12w

I didn't say they were but if someone were to seek more intelligence they should be denied that due to monetary complications

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Anonymous seeya_space_cowboy 12w

and is that a crime

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Anonymous OP 12w

no lol i just found it funny

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Anonymous #6 12w

Um do people not do this already???

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Anonymous OP 12w

weren't* shouldn't*

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Anonymous OP 12w

There's very little I've learned in college that I couldn't find elsewhere (in a nuclear engineering degree), so I wouldn't say knowledge is kept behind a barrier. People go to college to get a paper saying they're reliable enough to work an office job, nothing else.

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yuck!!

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Anonymous #8 12w

what do you mean by that?

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Anonymous #8 12w

That’s not even woke, that’s just profoundly stupid

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Anonymous #2 12w

He knows this bc he answered my question in a DM 😭

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Anonymous #2 12w

i agree with this but you'd be surprised at how many people lack critical thinking skills and don't even realize they do

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Anonymous #7 12w

If you’re a nuclear engineer I’m sure you understand that the structured environment of college combined with access to university resources and field experts is the main draw of college and an important part of the learning process. Not to mention the amount of research/ knowledge that is behind a paywall (but subsidized by university libraries)

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You’re a weanie butt

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Anonymous the_9billion_memes_of_god 12w

retweet!!!

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Anonymous #7 12w

also not to mention there are things outside of your major course curriculum that help build up your intellect, like reading classic literature, or speech/public speaking classes, that are mandatory for college students to take.

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Anonymous #13 12w

Basically, we need to pick and choose parts of the economy that the government will “socialize” and keep the rest as is. If we do this in combinations with raising the minimum wage to match inflation, the class divide will slowly begin to shrink. Also, if certain things like groceries become too expensive due to geopolitical situation or supply chain issues, the government can keep prices down temporarily by subsidizing at the production level (i.e. farmers). All this can be achieved with taxes

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Anonymous #14 12w

To be expected to toil until your sunset years is both and unnatural and cruel expectation to be placed upon anyone, let alone our society. We must reclaim the best years of our lives as ours to live, free from the necessities of constant employment. That being said, this is something we are not close to doing in this moment. We must lay the groundwork with the appropriate socialist policies in order to achieve this.

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Anonymous #13 12w

Also, we desperately need a high speed rail system and massive expansion of existing transit in medium sized American cities. This will allow for reduced traffic, the ability to expand cities outward without having to build 10 lane highways to accommodate it, and make it easier for young people and people in lower income areas (far away from city) to have jobs because they won’t have to worry about having a car.

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Anonymous #13 12w

High speed intercity railways would reduce reliance on cars and planes especially in massive, flat states like Texas for example. Imagine if you could spend $20 on Amtrak to go from Houston to Dallas, or LA to SF, and be there in an hour. Europe already has this!

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Anonymous freestyle 12w

What is a Smurf

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Anonymous #13 12w

Free is a dangerous word. Instead i think they should be “non profit” which allows the free market to exist but stuff shouldnt be free. Because atleast with money you know what your paying with

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Anonymous #17 12w

At the least, Healthcare is a basic human right and therefore should be free no ifs ands or buts

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Anonymous #18 12w

The problem is just how globalised the world is. That works for smaller communities but with global imports and exports. Having expensis paid for is also never going to happen because in order for that to be governmentally mandated taxes would skyrocket and so would inflation. Yes corpate greed does exist but so does individual greed. Handouts kill drive. Theres no reason to do anything when everything is given

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Anonymous #13 12w

If healthcare is free then taxes go up, AND will be governmentally mandated and controlled. Say what you will on either side of the polical spectrum but the government is not your friend and will never be. Instead having it be non profit allows medications to be worth what they actually are not upcharged, labor to be what it should cost aswell, the use of medical facilities ect

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Anonymous #1 12w

Intelligence isn’t the same as knowledge. Everyone should have access to knowledge

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Anonymous #17 11w

If healthcare is free then yes taxes go up… for the top 10% of earners who can VERY EASILY afford to have their taxes raised by a couple percents. Cost should not be a barrier to healthcare for ANYONE. Medications and services will be worth the same monetary cost, but that cost will be paid by tax dollars. The reason you feel like the government isn’t your friend is because a small group of people have spent BILLIONS to keep us reliant on insurance companies that frequently deny life saving care

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Anonymous #13 11w

Rather than spending billions on saving lives and improving healthcare infrastructure, billionaires and corporations would rather spend billions lobbying the government to allow them to literally not provide the service that we are paying them to provide. If all healthcare is guaranteed and paid for by the government, with enough funding behind it, this simply would not occur. In pretty much everywhere besides the US, even Canada right next to us, healthcare is ALREADY free or with a tiny copay

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Anonymous #20 11w

Naw, that’s the worst possible idea.

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Anonymous #1 11w

Some of these takes are terrible. I might just go through each one of these poking holes and saying what’s wrong

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Anonymous #20 11w

Wrong and this would fix nothing

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Anonymous #12 11w

Probably should

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Anonymous #13 11w

This would cause a societal collapse. What you would end up seeing is extreme economic growth for about 30-50 years maybe but then nothing. With no profit to be extracted, technology in these sectors would lack immensely

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Anonymous #1 11w

I mean it makes me think no one here has read economic theory. People are still living in 1970s theory

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Anonymous #12 11w

Economic theory? I can’t say I’ve heard of it lol

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Anonymous #13 11w

What do you really think that its not gonna effect the little guy? Thats a stupid idea to think they would ever focus on us. No taxes would sky rocket across the board. Just taxing one group is not how an economy functions. You would the dollar value collapse as inflation sky rockets. Its stupid to think that something that effects the mass population being made free would have no consequences

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Anonymous #14 11w

No offense bro but yeah maybe some jobs you could work a couple hours a day then be done but any blue collar job will never be like that. The back bone of our society are these men and women who put there whole body into building the foundation of our country. Removing 80% of the time they work would destroy our countries growth. Life isnt free it never will be. Its better for a mans wage to reflect the amount of work he or she puts in then to have a fixed amount of income.

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Anonymous #12 11w

Bro. If something is paid for by the government, it is still making money. The company still makes fucking money if it’s being paid for in money. The money just comes from taxes instead of insanely high bills paid out of pocket. Companies would be incentivized to maximize effectiveness in order to keep being funded. Also, economic growth for 50 years sounds pretty damn good to me!

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Anonymous #17 11w

You think taxes would skyrocket across the board… if we only raised taxes on one specific income bracket??? Also we are not taxing just one group. I want to tax everyone, but i believe that someone who makes over 1 million per year should not have a snaller portion of their income taxed than someone who makes under 50k. Some people make enough money that they literally cannot use it all, but the fact that that money exists raises inflation. Give me a good reason why we shouldn’t raise their tax

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Anonymous #17 11w

Like I said, we aren’t close to getting there yet. I do agree with you that the more reasonable current end goal is to pay them a living wage. However, we can’t deny that the kind of work a lot of blue collar jobs make you do not only sucks to do but is time consuming. Automating those jobs and transforming into a workless society should be the very long term goal, but only when people can live without jobs or work.

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Anonymous #13 11w

Please go read about Soviet Russia. You can stimulate growth in the economy but it will not be an inclusive economy. They forced their government investment to industry. This is an extreme example, but what it shows is things are not operating at peak efficiency. Why would you want a limited period of growth?

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Anonymous #1 11w

Crack open why nations fail. It won the Nobel Econ prize for 2024 and is a remarkable intro

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Anonymous #12 11w

Luckily I have read about Soviet Russia. I don’t want us to go full communist where the means of production are government owned. I’m saying we should pick and choose very specific industries to socialize that have to do with basic needs and human rights. I am not saying we should have a socialist government. I’m saying that we shouldn’t let our Cold War era fear of communism guide us away from implementing necessary improvements to our public infrastructure.

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Anonymous #13 11w

That isn’t a Cold War era view on communism… that’s straight facts. If you subsidize a portion of the economy you limit natural competition as well as the need for improvement. Or are you going to subsidize across the board? It will affect the distribution of the market unnaturally and this is assuming leaders stay in good faith the whole time

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