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    A couple of notes on Rafters

    No. People play within the system created. Elon taking more means the rest of us have less. As you said we've traded 1 king for 50. Because that's what capitalism does. Concentrates wealth. It doesn't matter who it is, Elon, the tooth fairy, or Leopold II. You give a perfect example of...
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    A couple of notes on Rafters

    Everything you said is true. Except the initial "No". It isn't corruption, it's just the natural progression of capitalism. The wealth concentrates and those in whose hands it concentrates use that power to continue to accrue more.
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    A couple of notes on Rafters

    Even granting that just for the sake of argument (it isn’t true), so? That’s staking all of society and its functioning on a gentlemen’s agreement. The altruism of strangers. Never going to work. Plenty of people may opt to follow it, as you say. But the Elon’s of the world never will. There...
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    A couple of notes on Rafters

    This is contradictory. Once one does it, the rest will fall behind if they don't. The system itself incentives that "greed" and punishes you if you don't engage in it.
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    A couple of notes on Rafters

    Which one are tariffs?
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