Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
so you guys are saying that if america embraced socialism, an economic superpower thousands of miles away that we never fucked with would slam us with crippling sanctions?

fascinating.
No, but the top 1% running the show would oppose the resource distribution, and the inevitable outcome would probably be economic chaos and everyone being the worse off for it for the foreseeable future.

I am not even arguing that we shouldn't theoretically try to distribute wealth/resources better. But things have gone so far I don't see any way of going about it that wouldn't make things much worse in the short term, and possibly long term, and I dunno it I want to risk it.

Obviously part of this is pragmatism on my part, as I am basically upper middle class so I have a lot to lose and not really a lot to gain. But from a worldwide perspective this is pretty much everyone in the United States, so noone here is truly incentivized to burn it all down.