Jimmy Higgins
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Gawd damn that's so naïve. Capitalism works until it doesn't. Capitalism is about making the best mouse trap... and then buying up any competition after that fact, to remain the only mousetrap in the business. Uber and Lyft have been bleeding money in order to not allow for any other competition, because in order to undersell Uber or Lyft you need to lose even MORE MONEY!Everyone needs to have equal opportunity to succeed. I can think of nothing better than capitalism for the job.I find it vulgar to discriminate by race.
what do you propose should have been done to level the playing field for African Americans in an environment where the majority didn't want them to succeed?
You did not make money with bitcoin because of affirmative action. That was freedom and free market capitalism. Build the best mouse trap or improve the most other lives and you will succeed beyond wildest dreams... even in this fucked up country. Capitalism represents non discrimation for everyone.
Capitalism is cholesterol, which has its purpose... until you have too much of it, and then it constricts the flow of money in the economy. Capitalism rewards the first one to get there. Like Facebook... who went public and then bought out the fledgling competition so they weren't replaced like MySpace or Friendster.
Dude, the Indians are across a couple oceans from here.Nor can the government hope to fix the bad that happened yesterday. And even if you could trust them to do something good (which you can't), what would you have them do first? Fix the Indians that we fucked up first?
"native Indians" Jebus!Ask the native Indians how good their government programs have helped them out?
Ask the children in some indigenous populations their opinion of schools verses the opinions of their Grandparents of the schools they attended?
You propose an interesting dilemma... claiming it can't be fixed... and using the evidence of it not being fixed in under a generation as your proof. The multi-generational and intentional fucking over of blacks and the intentional teaching indigenous that they'd never be better than remedial labor can't be fixed in a generation or two. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fix it... and for the generations of effort that it will take.