I remember making that argument. He didn't set up a bread shop and sell the bread. I had a distorted idea in my head about what Communism and Socialism is. It's not sharing. It's about controlling limited resources in order to establish power. Jesus was turning a limited resource into an unlimited resource. Because he got them for free, he was able to give them away. In return, he got gratitude, which is actually a pretty good payment for something you got for free. Money isn't the only means of trade, it simply facilitates trade. Capitalism isn't about gouging people. That's possible, but it's not the point of it. That argument is, really, based on the misrepresentation that all Capitalists are money hungry and greedy. Absolutely untrue.
I, recently, made the argument that the 'System' the Left loves to refer to is, really, just a loose collection of 'systems', and nature. The Left, actually, wants to replace that with one System that they control. I think the biggest difference I see is that the Left love limited resources, bottlenecks, rewards, and punishments. For me, my goal is always to seek to minimize or eliminate punishment. Alleviate bottlenecks, turn limited resources into unlimited resources, etc. The left seeks to inject punishment wherever it can, and manufacture it wherever possible. It's like, since they know they can't control nature, they want to inject controls everywhere and anywhere they can. It's the next best thing. Controlling how we interface with nature.
They do the same with rewards. They seek to replace the rewards nature gives us, with manufactured ones.
I remember making that argument. He didn't set up a bread shop and sell the bread. I had a distorted idea in my head about what Communism and Socialism is. It's not sharing. It's about controlling limited resources in order to establish power. Jesus was turning a limited resource into an unlimited resource. Because he got them for free, he was able to give them away. In return, he got gratitude, which is actually a pretty good payment for something you got for free. Money isn't the only means of trade, it simply facilitates trade. Capitalism isn't about gouging people. That's possible, but it's not the point of it. That argument is, really, based on the misrepresentation that all Capitalists are money hungry and greedy. Absolutely untrue.
I, recently, made the argument that the 'System' the Left loves to refer to is, really, just a loose collection of 'systems', and nature. The Left, actually, wants to replace that with one System that they control. I think the biggest difference I see is that the Left love limited resources, bottlenecks, rewards, and punishments. For me, my goal is always to seek to minimize or eliminate punishment. Alleviate bottlenecks, turn limited resources into unlimited resources, etc. The left seeks to inject punishment wherever it can, and manufacture it wherever possible. It's like, since they know they can't control nature, they want to inject controls everywhere and anywhere they can. It's the next best thing. Controlling how we interface with nature.
They do the same with rewards. They seek to replace the rewards nature gives us, with manufactured ones.
This is a fucking exceptional commentary that everyone should read twice!
They don't have a God, so they want to create a God-system in their image