Thank you for explaining honestly.

I didn’t engage because I don’t see any evidence of a good faith argument.

They put effort into their possessions and want to keep them. Fine, socialism is workers owning the means of production, the only thing you can’t own under socialism is a business that employs other people in a hierarchical fashion. You can still own a business where you are self employed. You can still own property, goods, purchase services, etc. you can even hire contractors to help your business.

But this poster seems to be operating on the less well defined “socialism is when the government does things to help people.” I think being against that is cruel to the point of psychopathy. But you can’t reason people out of positions they didn’t reason themselves into, so instead I made a sarcastic comment.

Thisnis why you have to go after the assets directly, wealth tax on fortunes over 10 million.

It’s only a strawman if it’s fiction. Capitalism as a system is doing real harm every day.

There are exceptions even here in Texas. My city has no toll roads and has a publicly owned power company.

We don’t have private power companies in this county. What are they gonna compete on? Price? They would buy the power from the public company. Service? The service is honestly good.

I dream of moving to a different. State but I thank my lucky stars I grew up in this city.

It makes sense if you don’t think the billionaires can ever lose, so anyone else getting more means some other poor person has to get less.

Ah yes, the biblical “human nature is flawed so we can’t ever make the world better” argument.

Ignoring the 1000’s of years of humans making the world better.

We used to have child sacrifice and we don’t anymore. We used to have chattel slavery and we don’t anymore.

Our economies can get better and if someone tells you otherwise they are lying to preserve their own power.

“we need socialism like Nordic countries!”

“Nordic countries are Capitalist they just have robust social welfare programs!”

" Then let’s implement those programs!"

“No! That’s socialism!”