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Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by topmonk »

eutectic wrote: post #2

Why only consider within-country inequality (and, yes, I realize that the answer is 'because it's partly a publicity stunt, and humans are biased and parochial')? The average American is incomparable wealthy compared to the average African, and you can on average save a life for only a few $thousand to one of Givewell's top recommended charities.

The poorest countries all have something in common, which is overpopulation. It seems as if the poorest have enough offspring so that they are always on the edge of starvation. I wonder if by giving them additional money, so they can have more kids, and even cause a greater strain on the local environment, have we actually done a good thing?

If there is an overpopulation of deer, we don't put big buckets of feed in the forest to support them. But for the human animal, that is exactly what we do.

I know this is a taboo subject, but I think that we may be creating more misery by giving charity, then by doing nothing.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by jquery »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #77
jquery wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over. Roads are not socialism. Roads have not destroyed societies like Venezuela or Cuba. Socialism is when the government decides private property is illegitimate and it fails every time it’s tried. Some amount of socialism may not kill the host but it’s a thing to be feared and wielded carefully not lauded.

Banana and cotton plantations are capitalism. The US is wealthy because it extracted it's wealth from the suffering of others worldwide.

> Banana and cotton plantations are capitalism

and? I never said capitalism didn't require any guardrails. Stop straw-manning other people.

> The US is wealthy because it extracted it's wealth from the suffering of others worldwide.

Why is Japan wealthy? South Korea? European countries? Is this the social justice theory of economics? There's not much evidence for that theory. It's pretty clear that capitalism (with appropriate guardrails and the rule of law) is wildly more successful than its alternatives. I think you're trying to argue that capitalism is beside the point and it's war and oppression that creates wealth. That's obviously nonsense.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by rtpg »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #81
throwawaycloud wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever make chicken? 3lbs of chicken is $15 alone ($3.59/lb x 4 lbs, about 1lb of liquid). That's not a lot of food. Oh, hmm.. How about hamburger then? Same story. $1k would absolutely be a lifechanger. I'd be able to go get my colonoscopy that I desperately need, or be able to at least go to a therapist to help get over my fear of needles in preparation for that. You bet I'll drop $15 on CAH. I'm not going to deny my…

$1000 for a colonoscopy to tell you that you need $500K of treatment?

Or to tell you that you are "mostly fine" and just have a diet issue.

Not knowing what is happening to your own body is an extremely scary scenario

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by FLUX-YOU »

moonka wrote: post #82
FLUX-YOU wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I doubt a law firm would put their letterhead on a fake letter, but looking at the public map, most of the subdivision I got a letter for is already owned by the USA: http://www.cameroncad.org/cadclientdb/propertymap.aspx Tarpon Haven Subdivision Edit: There's also two huge tracts of land above that subdivision that are also owned by the US. I'm not sure they even need to go through that subdivision if they wanted to…

Where did you find which property they bought? I probably missed it. I also imagine that if they built north of the property, walling off a part of property from the rest of the country in that fashion would fall into some legal issues.

It was in the letter they sent to individuals: https://imgur.com/emSk75t

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by dragonwriter »

jquery wrote: post #53
geofft wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If charity works great, why doesn't government-mandated charity work even better? There are a lot of things, like civil defense and firefighting and road building, that historically started working more reliably when they became government-run instead of depending on volunteers or private industry. What makes charity different?

Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over. Roads are not socialism. Roads have not destroyed societies like Venezuela or Cuba. Socialism is when the government decides private property is illegitimate and it fails every time it’s tried. Some amount of socialism may not kill the host but it’s a thing to be feared and wielded carefully not lauded.

> Because socialism has been proven to fail, over and over and over.

Except for Leninism and it's descendents, where has socialism of any kind been tried and failed?

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by Jedd »

Helloworldboy wrote: post #25
MPSimmons wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My kneejerk response is to downvote you, but I'm bigger than that. I'll just refer back to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. It might get old for you, but other people enjoy the creativity of combining things in new and interestingly subtle ways.

The problem is that even though there's an "infinite" number of combinations, they're all just some form of "edgy"/gross-out humor. It's just not that interesting after a few hands.

You seem unwaveringly convinced that your opinion of a card game is strongly relevant to a) the article, b) other people.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by lobotryas »

FLGMwt wrote: post #31

Oh hey, on top of the prevalent skepticism and detractions in the current discussion, I'll just throw out that, on its own, this is objectively a Good Thing. I won't dismiss the fact that this is good PR for CAH, but it is still morally-motivated positive impact for some fixed number of people. A company took some profit they had and exceptionally distributed to some of their less fortunate customers. Don't immediate…

>objectively a Good Thing

Could you please defend this assertion? They themselves admit that their redistribution method is flawed (see the FAQ).

I see this as an empty publicity stunt and something that doesn't help in the least.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by partiallypro »

"The US government actually knows how much money you have and has trillions of dollars to redistribute. Why don’t you get mad at the US government?"

A lot of hardworking people don't want handouts from the government. Though some do, but I believe they are a minority. I generally hate the mindset of wanting money from the government. I want off of the government if I can help it.

The fact is that most Americans pay virtually no federal income tax, and get money back during their returns. When I was starting out and made the median income level for the state I was living in at the time, I still paid no tax (outside of SALT) and got a return larger than what I paid in. People don't realize the government already heavily subsidizes the poor and as well as people well above the poverty line.

Re: Cards Against Humanity Redistributes Your Wealth

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Post by phantom_oracle »

This would probably fall into the off-topic area considering the content of the site, but I am quite impressed about the fact that they bought this long-ass domain and went along with it.

Does this give insight into the fact that under certain circumstances, we are post-dotcom (as a critical tool for branding)?

Their regular domain is quite long too: https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/

(and is definitely not as friendly to the eyes as something like: cah.[trendy-extension])

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