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  1. Friend of Mara

    We need to have an honest discussion about race in America

    Sure. BTW [ quote ] and [ / quote ] without the spaces can clip quote parts in your post. You have conflated personality with status. A princess could be a socialist but she still benefits from her status as princess. South Africa is the main cavate of minority with more power. White people...
  2. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    I'll be honest I don't have a perfect view of how an "end goal" should work. However the commodification of housing has been a determent to society as a whole. Which is why most of my thoughts are more preoccupied with steps that can make things better rather than perfect. But there surely is a...
  3. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    Decomodifying housing is an end goal of mine.
  4. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    Sorry to interject but a point I'd like to make on the housing market. It won't get better unless we outlaw commercial corporate housing markets. Proper limitations on how many properties someone can own commercially. I don't think we could outlaw renting as it is right now and how much...
  5. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    I will define it now as anyone living on an income that creates undue burden on their lives. Why not? They deserve it just as much as the homeless man if it is in a UBI setting. It is not welfare. It is not intended to be welfare. It is not "help" given to those in need. It is a baseline given...
  6. Friend of Mara

    We need to have an honest discussion about race in America

    To sit back is propagating. I explained what white fragility was in a previous post. You cut that out of your response in the previous post and made claims that I had already shown were false. So either you didn't read it or you didn't understand it.
  7. Friend of Mara

    Political Affiliation Changing in US

    Spiritual?
  8. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    As I am the OP of the thread I can say with strong degree of certainty that is exactly what I was asking. I'm not going to obfuscate the discussion over semantics. If this is somehow important to your point spell it out and I can respond to that. There is a longer answer. Shorter answer is...
  9. Friend of Mara

    We need to have an honest discussion about race in America

    If you witness a murder and don't come forward you are legally an accomplice are you not? If you allow racism you too are guilty of propagating racism. A black man living in America. Wonder how that topic might have piqued his interest. Well as the opinion is coming from a racist I can...
  10. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    The question wasn't about a person has to be in poverty. But a specific sect of workers have to be by design. And your answer was yes. Do all of these poverty jobs need to be filled? And the ones working there deserve to be in poverty while they work there? Did I miss something? UBI would...
  11. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    Why is it every study on it shows little to now loss of jobs? And the ones that did have job losses were usually mothers with a spouse and students?
  12. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    The problem with that is jobs don't simply move you up. It has worked like that in many industries before but not always. And currently there is very little. And that doesn't solve the initial query. Is it safe to say you chose option 3?
  13. Friend of Mara

    We need to have an honest discussion about race in America

    Misfortune that was entirely constructed and can, if we so desire, restrict. Kendi seems to see racism in everything. His idea that you are either a racist or an antiracist there is no neutral position; I find absurd especially when his idea of antiracism is based on his subjective views (IOW...
  14. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    Agreed on that as well. In addition to some other changes as well. Though a negative note on guaranteed basic income is still addressing inequality. I like the idea but there are probably some kinks we have to work out on the way as well.
  15. Friend of Mara

    We need to have an honest discussion about race in America

    Care to highlight a few? If you have read 2 sentences by Ibram X Kendi then I won't have to compile that list for you since that is almost entirely what is life's work is.
  16. Friend of Mara

    We need to have an honest discussion about race in America

    Such as? The culture of living in poverty tends to lead to the children also living their lives in poverty as an adult? The cycle of poverty is a really good springboard for the discussion on what we can do systematically to change an unfair environment. I can compile a hundred different...
  17. Friend of Mara

    Political Affiliation Changing in US

    Yeah. Biden is garbage. What has really happened is that the Democrats aren't keeping up with the rise of further left leaning people. More and more are leaving to become "independent" voters because they were left enough for them. But to be fair the Democrats are a sham. So are Republicans are...
  18. Friend of Mara

    USA Drops Out Of Top 25 Least Corrupt Nations

    How about we get the money out of it entirely? We'll see who is actually supported and who is not. Every campaign is gathering people for support. For a more equal society our voices need to be more equal. On the presidential level getting rid of the EC is the first thing that has to go. Allow...
  19. Friend of Mara

    Most free states run by Republicans. Least free states run by Democrats.

    "Financial Freedom" and "Personal Freedom" are very different and having them lumped into the same category seems a little disingenuous. The same place you have little to no regulation on the pharmaceutical companies is the same place where you can spend your life in prison for possession of...
  20. Friend of Mara

    Wages and Poverty

    I am interested in the responses of all different sides of the political spectrum. TBH I'm not sure where I am with this and have no real answers. As the economy exists there are jobs that only pay poverty wages. Therefore poverty exists even within the working class. This seems a totally...
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