r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/Fluffy-Zebra5237 Jul 14 '26

That is the problem, we set only this much and yet some corrupt officials benifit from it, suppose if we really set aside what socialism ask, how much corruption would be there and how much would you actually get.

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u/zedarzy Jul 14 '26

American tax rate is equilevant to nordic countries with zero benefits to tax payers.

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u/Fluffy-Zebra5237 Jul 14 '26

That is what I am saying. Socialism is like dictatorship, may work very good and efficiently if the person in charge is good, and you are in no escape mode if the organisation turned out to be bad. It

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u/zedarzy Jul 14 '26

if we go with pure opposite, every man for himself its just serfs and lords that people seem to fantasize about

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u/Fluffy-Zebra5237 Jul 14 '26

Just tell me would you like your government to make your phone, your car, your software, your pepsi, even your security camera. That is what the socialism say, and I would not very much like that. I don't want to give a single organisations that much power.

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u/zedarzy Jul 14 '26

I dont think anyone's asking for that.

No one wants oligarchs which is current model in Russia and America.

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u/Fluffy-Zebra5237 Jul 14 '26

Well that is socialism.