• Pyr_Pressure
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    Public services don’t need to be profitable to be sustainable. You just need to tax base to be okay with it.

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      Hell at the government level they can even just create money if needed. There’s a growing body of evidence that careful and measured “money printing” can actually be beneficial to an economy, and I suspect will become crucial to maintaining economies as populations decline and eventually stabilize

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      Yeah, I don’t want them to be profitable, but sustainable.

      Even if taxpayers are paying for it, you can’t rely on the (struggling) general population to lift people out of homelessness. Let the rich carry that burden. They are the ones who’ve hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else.

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        hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else

        That’s not how money works?

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          Yes, because hoarding billions means it was stolen from someone else. Either through low wages, low taxes, loopholes, or unethical business practices.

          Nobody should ever be able to accumulate billions of dollars. We have people who will be trillionaires in our lifetime. Unjustifiable.

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            means it was stolen from someone else

            No it isn’t? Usually it just means owning stock in a company, that others want to buy. That stock isn’t “stolen”, neither is the value that others assign to it.

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              Maybe not stolen, but capital is definitely extracted from the working class and the people who actually create the things that are making these stockholders money.