• jorp@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Classic brain-dead centrist perspective thanks for sharing.

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          22 days ago

          here are two arguments:

          1. Your stance is based on the idea that both sides have equal merit
          2. You have no principles or independent thought

          you can pick the exact middle

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            22 days ago

            It’s hard to judge whether extreme right or extreme left is worse. They are both dangerous for a country, though in a different sense.

            I personally am not in the exact middle but being radical is not a choice.

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                22 days ago

                Usually the surreal ones such as extremely high minimum wages, fixed prices for food, state-sponsored housing, etc.

                Basically all actions that look very good on paper but at the same time are extremely expensive.

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                  22 days ago

                  lol yes ok very dangerous and equivalent to fascism understood

                  my opinion of centrists has completely flipped, I totally get why “spending too much” and “enforcing an ethnic hierarchy” are the same degree of evil

                  snark aside: you should reflect about what exactly money is, what it’s used for and what it represents, and how a government spending its own legal tender differs from household finances.

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            22 days ago

            I have just pointed out that both sides have extreme views that are dangerous.

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              22 days ago

              What extreme views are coming from the left side?

              The right side is fascism, the left side is plans to raise the monthly minimum wage, impose price ceilings on essential foods, electricity, gas and petrol, repeal Macron’s deeply unpopular decision to raise the retirement age to 64, and invest massively in the green transition and public services.

              How are those ‘exteme’ and ‘dangerous’?

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                22 days ago

                Exactly those are the views you mentioned. All these are extremely expensive and financing all of them without the debt increase is practically impossible. Combine it with almost no relevant plans how to improve economy and you have got quite a dangerous situation. You cannot just spend money without earning it.

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                  22 days ago

                  Raising the standard of living and improving the purchasing power of the individual DOES improve the economy because it enables more people to spend more on foods and services. They are financed by raising taxes on the ultra wealthy and corporations. The money is already earned, the difference it whether it gets pocketed and horded by executives or recirculated into the economy by improving the standard of living of the populace

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                    22 days ago

                    Those ultra wealthy people and corporations are not that stupid. If they see they can exist and pay less in a different country, they will just move. Everyone will be happy apart from the country which rose the taxes.

                    Of course that rising living standards improves economy but not in a way where you just sponsor good housing for your whole population.