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Comment · 5 years ago
People stopped using gold because of greed and power. They introduced a usurious system in order to collect wealth to a small group of people, resulting in the mess we're in today. Gold, silver, and commodities are the superior solution.
Comment · 5 years ago
> nobody is trying to be a saviour here

Perhaps not explicitly, but by ignoring reality and pretending that we live on a different planet, people with this mentality sure do come across that way. Some even explicitly so.

> we all want fulfillment, no matter our sex

Which is why in countries that are most egalitarian, you'll find women naturally drawn to more "female oriented" practices, like nursing or childcare, and men to more "male oriented" work like construction and plumbing. Of course, the SJW's don't like that and want to push women head to head against men, only for it to end in the chaos we see today.

> overly simplistic biological hypotheses

Except it's not so. Phenomenon that have been observed across cultures and geography and time is not a "simplistic biological hypothesis".

Comment · 5 years ago
I see what you're saying, but I think there's more to it. Mixing men and women in the workplace has been a recipe for disaster time and time again. I'm not excusing the behavior of men who do engage in those actions, but it's almost an expected outcome. We see this across the board, from desk jobs, to labor intensive work like construction or even the military.

Agreed that people look to those at the top of the society. In a hyper capitalistic world we live in today, the vast majority of those people are the ultra wealthy, who happen to almost all be men. Many of those men fought their way up, rightly or wrongly. Feminists and SWJ's want to push women into that same space, claiming that men and women are the same, yet they don't see the contradiction of having to hand hold those women in order for them to be able to compete there in the first place. They're implicitly admitting that men and women are different, but they can't deal with the cognitive dissonance.

Comment · 5 years ago
Because sex is something that most people are going to engage in at one point or another, it's part of human nature. Killing and murdering isn't acceptable.
Comment · 5 years ago
> The overvaluing and focus on sex of being something amazing or interesting.

Because there are severe consequences to it, pregnancies and STDs being just the start.

Yes, it is an amazing thing, and it is not overvalued at all. It's one of the strongest drives we have as humans, and it should be controlled, otherwise it will lead to chaos.

Comment · 5 years ago
No reason that women can't accomplish important things, the problem is that feminism pushed the false narrative that men and women are equal across the board, this is obviously a fallacious and dangerous premise, and now society is paying the price. They also brainwashed people that any criticism of their toxic ideas is automatically labeled as "misogynistic", "patriarchal" and "authoritarian", etc. Add to that the notion of equality of outcome (instead of equality of opportunity), and we see what it leads to.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Two people earning 30k each will pay significantly less tax than one earning 60k

Is it the case though? Don't married filers get taxed on the total household income instead of their individual incomes?

> Women are wasting their lives do menial make-work instead of the one thing they all want to do sooner or later

Shhh, that's sexist ;) You can thank the feminists for propagating their toxic agendas that caused this by the way.

Comment · 5 years ago
The modern economy is debt based by design (i.e. backed by interest and usurious transactions). This by definition creates a separation in the socio economic hierarchy.

It's for a reason that usury/interest is banned in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism for example. It's a parasitic practice that makes the economy fundamentally unstable. This includes dangerous practices such as selling debt for debt (which triggered the 2008 crisis), and things like stock shorting (which, interestingly enough was also banned during the crisis, at least for some critical company stocks).

Get rid of these dangerous, immoral, and parasitic practices, and we'll be on a strong path to improve things.

Comment · 5 years ago
> During and after the economic collapse of 2007-2009 I wondered who was at fault; who to blame

Sometimes it is possible to at least narrow things down to an underlying inherent instability. In the case of your example, a huge underlying cause is an economic system based on debt (backed by interest and usurious transactions). It's for a reason that usury/interest is banned in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism for example. It's a parasitic practice that makes the economy fundamentally unstable. This includes dangerous practices such as selling debt for debt (again part of the same crisis), and things like stock shorting (which, interestingly enough was also banned during the crisis, at least for some critical company stocks).

Comment · 5 years ago
Islam has the superior approach. Look up Zakat laws.
Comment · 5 years ago

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