Example: I believe that IP is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful.

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Edit2: IP= intellectal property

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  • tantalizer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Regarding the collapse of wealthy countries I was more thinking of the social securities like free healthcare, education, retirement, welfare etc. I don’t think the justice system will collapse and agree that that is right-wing propaganda. But I can see the first things I mentioned happening when there is an influx in people that do not immediately pay I to the system to finance it for others. This might not apply to the US where education and healthcare isn’t free to begin with, but in countries like Germany where it’s the case it might be more severe. On the other hand, the retirement system is already very strained in Germany as there are less and less young people to pay for the old ones that retired…

    • anon_most@lemmy.world
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      In the United States we do not have the social welfare system that Europe does. Our political class chooses to invest in the military and imperialist wars abroad instead of providing “free” college education or healthcare for our people. It’s not right and is a big reason that Bernie Sanders, the only socialist democrat in the US congress has become so popular, because he is constantly telling us that the richest country in the world has zero excuse not to provide those basic needs to its people.

      I think that is another fallacy that the ruling class elites like to tell us: don’t let all those foreigners in or our healthcare and education system will collapse! Fear mongering is what this is. For example in the United States in the last decade undocumented immigrants have contributed roughly $200 Billion into the Social Security system of which they do not get to benefit from. Also, immigrants have contributed immensely to local economies, revitalizing entire forgotten manufacturing towns in the Midwest that have been destroyed by outsourcing of jobs to Asia for cheap labor. My point is a huge influx, which I don’t believe would happen anyway, would just contribute to the tax base because regardless of immigrant status in the US you pay taxes just by being another consumer. Social programs including healthcare and education would just adjust over time.

      You know who actually is about to cause the collapse of our social security and medicare systems in the US? Elon Musk, Trump and their billionaire cronies who infiltrated government and NOT migrants coming over the border working the fields for $5 per hour.

      Based on your comment it seems to me like you’re a German citizen. Let me give some unsolicited advice: Fight like hell to keep your social welfare programs! The news lately seems to be showing that Germany is re-militarizing and that may come at a cost just like in the USA they will try to claw money away from social programs to redirect to military spending. Fight like hell so you don’t become the capitalist wasteland the USA has become with ruling elites trying to privatize every program.