Workism - a New Socioeconomic System

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  1. bordsilver

    bordsilver Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    While it is true that you did try to carve out a space for legitimate dependents which I agree with (although properly knowing who is legitimate and who isn't is a little fraught") you specifically have
    Corollary 1: No Wealth Transfers, No Bequests.
    Ergo inheritance taxes.
     
  2. Phransisku

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    Lies are not constructive criticism, at all. I'm sorry if I don't accept them.
    Anyway, I was constructive in debunking them. You just do not accept reality. You didn't even bother to respond.
     
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    Did you bother to read the article?
     
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    Bang on.

    I quickly came to the conclusion this thread wasn't going to be really worth the effort to argue with a zealot. Plus I had ultimate faith that shiney and bord would more effectively dismantle the ideology than I could have. :p
     
  5. Phransisku

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    Even a teacher can't force his students to read.

    Oh, and your logic is very interesting. If we gather 10 people in a room, 9 poor and 1 rich, if the 9 rob the rich and tell him his belongings were never his, the rich person should stop to consider for a moment that maybe they're right.

    Maybe you are right. Maybe you're also right to mess up with my name. Oh, you are so right and I am so wrong!...do you feel better already?
     
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    No bequests =/= inheritance taxes

    Still hard to understand? As long as your mind is only able to process capitalism and communism, you won't solve this "mystery".
     
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    Clearly wasting my time attempting to engage you with your blinkered stance so I wont bother any further
     
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  8. bordsilver

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    It's a 100% tax.

    Unless you can tell me the difference, I believe that the Workism theory is basically a variant of Syndicalism. This has been tried in the past including famously in Catalonia in the 1900's. It can be done today within our existing laws just like kibbutz and the like. Inevitably they fail because the allocation of capital between and within businesses is a very important part of what makes complex production chains possible. Workism/Syndicalism essentially loses critical information and price signals associated with the efficient allocation of capital (both within and between businesses). True, you are trying to allow some level of capital allocation under Workism but it is the exception rather than the norm. This places the system at a massive disadvantage to ordinary capitalism.
     
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  9. mmm....shiney!

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    Irwin Schiff’s cartoon is probably the most effective piece of writing explaining the free-market and capitalism at my level of comprehension. ;)
     
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    bordsilver Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    One of the best for any level of comprehension. It should be the favoured text book in high school civics classes as well as university economics in my opinion.
     
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    ....... and........... he’s gone. Off to spread the word about Workism to a less “hostile", more ignorant audience.
     

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