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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (172206)	5/23/2021 12:57:42 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219466

The question of how much "merit" is a function of purely individual initiative... and how much "merit" is a function of other things... like life lessons learned from school, and from family ? Socialism seeks to commoditize and replace family as a source of social value... in the sense of "values"... usurping the role of family in providing those life lessons that equip one to deal with the world as it is... in more less adaptive ways. Government provided education... emphasizes life lessons that focus on... ensuring government as parent never allows the kids to grow up and succeed on their own merits... but always sustains that position with the government as the dominant player in "the family" as the keeper of the moral authority. Welfare... is notorious for its persistence in crafting dependency... spawning a generational inheritance of "values" tied to preserving the flow in "life on the dole"... ? And government is mostly quite happy to sustain that dependency... irrespective of the costs... ? One difficulty, then... is that government is an absolutely terrible, terrible parent... and an even worse teacher... but generally successful in transmitting its corrupted values... that require government must be accepted as abusive of the people. That it is abusive of different people in different ways... rewarding those who adopt the corrupted values of government dependency... while punishing those who succeed in spite of the governments efforts to debase the public morality... at their expense ? It can be no other way... as socialism consumes more than it produces... and must impose that result in consequence... no matter how the "takings" are structured... no matter the sleights of hand enabled in trying to mask the pernicious nature of the influences imposed ? One of those... of course... is the effort common in socialsm... that seeks to socialize the costs it imposes through parallel schemes to taxation... to distribute the costs "more evenly" through the means of currency distribution... ie., debasement of the currency... as a form of tax. At its core... the U.S. dollar is thus one such financial instrument that allows one to bet on the ulitmate success and sustainability of socialism... FWIW... I continue to acquire gold and silver... and gold and silver mining shares... I take it you are lontg dollars, instead ?