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Comment · 10 years ago
The greatest crime a capitalist can imagine is an employee getting paid the amount they are promised, in excess of that they deserve. The greatest virtue a capitalist can imagine is an employer making profits in excess of their contribution.
Comment · 10 years ago
Is it ironic? Europe's great modern wealth is socialist capitalism.

The original canonical work on capitalism, Adam Smith's "On the Wealth of Nations" lays this out clearly.

Comment · 10 years ago
Well, it came from being the children of people who provided a good or service, and likely in large part due to illegal unfair competitive advantage.
Comment · 10 years ago
Dividends, yet. But not all stock growth is due to realized profit. Look at AMZN for example.
Comment · 10 years ago
Inflation punishes people who assets. Poor people only suffer when their nominal wages don't grow to match inflation -- but that's exactly the same as their employers lowering wages in an inflation-free environment. Inflation is only superficially related to the problem of real wage reductions.
Comment · 10 years ago
There is no need to insert arbitrary ageism. It just makes you look immature, whatever your age.
Comment · 10 years ago
Arabs use "Sharia" like Americans use "Liberty". They just use the word because it sounds respectable, but they make it mean whatever suits their power.
Comment · 10 years ago
How is the Western rejection of Christianity coming along?
Comment · 10 years ago
Can I watch Lawrence of Arabia to start?
Comment · 10 years ago
He wasn't communist, and that nonsense worldview is why they missed the problem. He was an opportunist, like many people in all governments. He sold info to russians while others just sold contracts to friends or embezzled directly. It's not us vs a foreign them, there are selfish and power-hungry monsters throughout all sides.
Comment · 10 years ago
Similar track record to 21st century USA FBI
Comment · 10 years ago
They did. 100% share.
Comment · 10 years ago
Does z.cash prevent deanonymization via IP traffic analysis?

Does it resist clusterization?

Comment · 10 years ago
What's not accurate?
Comment · 10 years ago
Finance theory disagrees with you.

A dividend lets the investors choose if they want to buy more shares (from the same sellers who would sell in a buyback) or mix their current shares with the cash.

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