Valid meme but hopefully it doesn’t minimize the plight of Uyghurs in peoples minds.

Obviously I’m teleporting to Albania.

That’s just delusional.

I’d say coerced wage slavery.

Settle down, Beavis

Saying the public has ownership implies that they have some control of it which certainly isn’t true. It’s more like a Palace economy than anything.

Fun fact, Britain had to create taxes in it’s East African colonies not to raise income but because British economic interests struggled to recruit workers from people who had everything they needed without the British. Forcing them to pay taxes in currency forced them to accept employment to acquire that currency.

Once down the dark path you begin, forever with it dominate your destiny.

Calling a country where the means of production are controlled by the upper classes “socialist” is a stretch even before we consider their mixed economy and rampant capitalism.

Someone’s got their head buried in the sand. The number of critical problems that are gonna come to a head in the next 20 years that could collectively degrade the biosphere beyond supporting a substantial human population is nuts. It’s not fatalist to say that billions could die and it’s no consolation to the dead and their loved ones that “humans are exceptionally durable”.

Income from India is the main driver of 18 century British naval dominance but even if we exclude India and the sugar growing Caribbean islands, there was tons of British colonial possessions that didn’t directly contribute to the treasury enough to cover expenditures but still benefited the Empire economically and enriched upperclass brits individually. There are maybe a handful of remote islands that could be considered charitable to add to the British Empire; exploitation was the name of the game everywhere else.

Word smiths decided that “earning a living” implies anything other than you work for you’re money. And I 100% support caring for anything who cannot work. But i’m not desperate enough for “likes” that i’ll read into something that isn’t there

People who usually get MBA’s typically aren’t actually good at anything but they grew up upperclass and have no intention of getting a blue collar job.

Earning a living implies that you’re not using passive income to mooch off people. It’s contrasted to land lords and nobility who were simply entitled to money.

My carbureted v-8 feels called out

My machine was once VERY capable. It’s not a top of the line gaming box but it’s still capable and shows no signs of crapping out yet. Can’t run windows 11 but it’s not worth throwing away my computer over.

Sometimes you argue for the lurkers, not the people in front of you. The key is avoid posting walls of text and to throw grenades, not catch them.

You are of course correct. My oversight.

Small Government to them is defined as not spending tax money to help people.

These are people who define big government as “spending tax money to help people”.