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To oppose profit is to oppose life itself
(thelibertylounge.wordpress.com)
Which rule of acquisition is this?
239 : when it’s time to grift idiot, you’ll know it
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This has to be poorly written satire.
OP appears to be the author, so I'd be curious to hear an answer.
Oh they are for sure the author, if you follow the link it goes to a page with one other also batshit stupid article. My question is do they sincerely believe this bullshit?
Is this an Onion article?
I like the general analogy, but the author's case seems to be that there are evil crooks at all income/wealth levels, but there are also good people at all income/wealth levels and so we shouldn't demonize (and tax?) people based on income/wealth alone.
I guess that's a logical argument that could stand in its own merits, but it seems to be missing out on some important facts about the real world.
Like, I'm really not sure what he's getting at nor who he thinking is deeming (moderate) profits to be bad / undesirable at a society level? This feels like something I would have written right after reading Ayn Rand's works in college: lots of pronouncements about the righteousness of hard and smart work without having seen how the systems of the world work in reality.
I agree and the message could be useful for someone who has been propagandized to the point where they literally associate profits with evil without ability to critically analyze what they believe. And there are plenty of those people. But the author avoids any mention of wealth hording (among other glaring omissions) and simplifies the "bad billionaire" problem to a few bad apples. The choice to ignore the scale of the problem or acknowledge how we got here through deregulation solidifies the piece as an attempt to maintain the status quo.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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