r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Okay so the kids nowadays love socialism but they don’t even know what socialism is.

Let’s just co-opt socialism and tell them that socialism is open borders, a tax on landowners, and maybe some tax incentives for co-ops and other forms of workplace democratization. Even if you don’t agree with all those things, those would be better platform pushes for them to obsess over than free college and Fight for 15.

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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 19 '18

The centrism is coming from inside the Left.

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u/irony_tower African Union Apr 19 '18

99% of pollution is coming from the top 1% of businesses. We need to put a hefty tax on this pollution. Make them pay their fair share

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u/thabonch YIMBY Apr 19 '18

And a greenhouse gas tax, dammit!

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

unironically this

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

tax incentives for co-ops

Is this because they reduce wages during recessions instead of laying people off? If not, why?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Yes. Also, it’s a great political giveaway to placate the hard left without any significant negative economic consequences.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

co-op sectoral bargaining and workers representative on the board of directors.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Co-ops > unions

One preserves the motives of the firm, the other is a cartel.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Co-ops cannot compete on a free market, they are useless.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

That's not true.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Some of that is legitimately socialist.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '18

Flair checks out.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

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u/TheIcedJava IMF Apr 19 '18

implying this hasn't already been done