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apta

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    Comment #25596253

    > but I don't see these conversations taking place amongst teachers, most especially for earlier primary education which is more female than male. That's because it doesn't fit the…

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    Comment #25579562

    People stopped using gold because of greed and power. They introduced a usurious system in order to collect wealth to a small group of people, resulting in the mess we're in today.…

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    Comment #25578294

    > These purely social barriers They're mainly biological by virtue of hormones. No amount of social conditioning will change that. It is inherent in our species. > bigotry Biology.…

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    Comment #25577455

    > nobody is trying to be a saviour here Perhaps not explicitly, but by ignoring reality and pretending that we live on a different planet, people with this mentality sure do come a…

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    Comment #25577439

    I see what you're saying, but I think there's more to it. Mixing men and women in the workplace has been a recipe for disaster time and time again. I'm not excusing the behavior of…

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    Comment #25577414

    > The vast majority of employment opportunities do not involve physical labour requiring strength on a level unobtainable by women. That's not my argument. Men are not just physica…

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    Comment #25575157

    I didn't say they never belong in the workplace. However, the toxicity of feminism is that one of the rotten values it introduced is that a woman must go to the workplace, otherwis…

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    Comment #25573143

    Because sex is something that most people are going to engage in at one point or another, it's part of human nature. Killing and murdering isn't acceptable.

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    Comment #25572984

    > The overvaluing and focus on sex of being something amazing or interesting. Because there are severe consequences to it, pregnancies and STDs being just the start. Yes, it is an …

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    Comment #25572817

    No reason that women can't accomplish important things, the problem is that feminism pushed the false narrative that men and women are equal across the board, this is obviously a f…

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    Comment #25572761

    > Two people earning 30k each will pay significantly less tax than one earning 60k Is it the case though? Don't married filers get taxed on the total household income instead of th…

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    Comment #25572590

    The modern economy is debt based by design (i.e. backed by interest and usurious transactions). This by definition creates a separation in the socio economic hierarchy. It's for a …

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    Comment #25557580

    > During and after the economic collapse of 2007-2009 I wondered who was at fault; who to blame Sometimes it is possible to at least narrow things down to an underlying inherent in…

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    Comment #25547445

    Islam has the superior approach. Look up Zakat laws.

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    Comment #25545628

    https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/

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    Comment #25515296

    Except when it comes to gov't controlled inflation.

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    Comment #25515266

    The superior model that has proven to work is Islam's Zakat. It's sort-of-but-not-really a wealth tax. 0% income tax, 0% gains tax, and only people who hold commodities over a cert…

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    Comment #25515243

    > That's only true if you raise taxes on the kind and amount of income that doctors and lawyers typically make. That's what Biden wants to do, terrible idea. Removing favorable tre…

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    Comment #25513433

    > Taking away our culture and morally corrupting the young generation It's 100% correct.

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    Comment #25509482

    What line of work are you in?

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    Comment #25483650

    It was during the time of Omar Ibn AbdulAziz. I looked up the reference, and it was actually not just income from Zakat, but the entire fund in Iraq was overflowing, so much so tha…

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    Comment #25478812

    Look at the route Islam took with Zakat. It's a form of "charity tax" that depends on wealth. However, your scenario does not hold, the government will not force you to sell your c…

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    Comment #25478775

    Exactly. Islam took a similar route with Zakat (a form of "charity tax" if you will, over 1400 years ago, and it's proven to work. When you look at history, there was a period of t…

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    Comment #25462525

    Except that is a misconception because no one paid anywhere close to that 87% rate back in the day. The rich will always find loopholes and deductions to lower their tax rates.

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    Comment #25462468

    Islam solved this problem a long time ago. It has a built-in "charity tax" called Zakat whereby a portion of people's wealth (as long as they make more than a minimum threshold) is…