@mischievoustomato I want it to be very clear that I do not advocate for the following position, but that I am simply explaining why someone reasonable would have this type of position.
The flaws in the below are obvious to those of us who the government just hates - but people who were treated better by the government than their parents tend to dismiss points related to that.
----NOT MY OPINION----
People who clawed their way out of abject poverty and into the middle/upper-middle class tend to have gotten almost no help - financial, emotional, developmental... - from their parents. They see very clearly that they would have been wildly better off if they were put in something like foster care, and that growing up in such environments is not a *hard* barrier to success. Such people are highly competent, and will always advocate for a system of absolute meritocracy no matter what.
To such a person, any form of nepotism - however mild - is detestable. That guy who hires his retarded cousin to manage HR, that guy who wastes his life because he got a sizeable trust fund...such things, everyone hates. However, they become aware that "most" people had access to serious advantages that you didn't have - healthy food, study environments at home that were quiet, advice from parents, money to help buy a home... - and they identify these things (correctly) as barriers towards a true meritocracy.
The truest form of meritocracy, to such a person, is one where children are taken away from their parents, put into government-run foster homes, fed by the government, and given equal access to education. Children are left largely to fend for themselves, and...such people see nothing wrong with that, because it is better than the environment that they themselves grew up in: they want to build a better future for the next generation than the one they had, and this future looks better to them than what they had.
Naturally, in such a system, there is no need to pass down wealth to children: the 100% inheritance tax only makes sense there.
The flaws in the below are obvious to those of us who the government just hates - but people who were treated better by the government than their parents tend to dismiss points related to that.
----NOT MY OPINION----
People who clawed their way out of abject poverty and into the middle/upper-middle class tend to have gotten almost no help - financial, emotional, developmental... - from their parents. They see very clearly that they would have been wildly better off if they were put in something like foster care, and that growing up in such environments is not a *hard* barrier to success. Such people are highly competent, and will always advocate for a system of absolute meritocracy no matter what.
To such a person, any form of nepotism - however mild - is detestable. That guy who hires his retarded cousin to manage HR, that guy who wastes his life because he got a sizeable trust fund...such things, everyone hates. However, they become aware that "most" people had access to serious advantages that you didn't have - healthy food, study environments at home that were quiet, advice from parents, money to help buy a home... - and they identify these things (correctly) as barriers towards a true meritocracy.
The truest form of meritocracy, to such a person, is one where children are taken away from their parents, put into government-run foster homes, fed by the government, and given equal access to education. Children are left largely to fend for themselves, and...such people see nothing wrong with that, because it is better than the environment that they themselves grew up in: they want to build a better future for the next generation than the one they had, and this future looks better to them than what they had.
Naturally, in such a system, there is no need to pass down wealth to children: the 100% inheritance tax only makes sense there.
@M_39 @Wiz @mischievoustomato No, I'm explaining why there are people who do like the idea, they're usually people who got fucking nothing from their parents.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @M_39 @Wiz @mischievoustomato most of American culture your parents behaving like they do in southern Europe is foreign to them. My mother advanced my entire inheritance as a donation while alive as a donation, that covered half of the apartment I bought. The other half was living rent free in this ocean villa from 2010. This is the house my grandfather built, so my grandmother before she died in 2016 said that my uncle who’s schizophrenic should live his natural life out in this house. My mother cooks for him every day, homemade food, like quality food. Buys everything for him. Helps him out with everything. Of course that’s the food I eat too. My other uncle lives in third floor. It’s three houses on top of each other. My sister and me, and my cousins is supposed to get the value from this house from my mother and my aunts, none of my uncle’s got children. So you see it’s very different in Spain, the culture, and many Americans mistakes it for somehow leaching of your parents. The state in Spain doesn’t have enough resources like in Norway to provide for people with issues, so the family takes the responsibility in Spain to some degree, besides the little help the state in Spain offers
@BasedLunatic @M_39 @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato now imagine the government just decides you don't get to keep your ancestral home because... reasons. That's the silly shit advocated here.
@Wiz @M_39 @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato well that wouldn’t go well down in Spain, there would be a revolution
@BasedLunatic @M_39 @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato wasn't the last Spanish revolution communist?
@thatguyoverthere @M_39 @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato the military was catholic fascist on the right, that's only coup that has been and wasn't a revolution but civil war
@BasedLunatic @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato ffs you make ONE comment about CMD's penis and then your notifications are flooded
@M_39 @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato I can post a meme about tomatobro penis. He is only one who I heard describe his size of penis besides economic woes and social skills problems
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@BasedLunatic @M_39 @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating my penis: small
my interest in women's happiness: nonexistant
therefore i no longer care!
my interest in women's happiness: nonexistant
therefore i no longer care!
@mischievoustomato @BasedLunatic @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating I'm not sure I believe it is small, objectively speaking
@mischievoustomato @M_39 @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating what is “small “ obviously you can’t compare yourself to 8 inchers and say you are small looking at your own dick
@BasedLunatic @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato IF YOU'RE UNDER 9 INCHES YOU CANNOT PLEASURE WOMEN
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@beardalaxy @M_39 @BasedLunatic @thatguyoverthere @Wiz @ceo_of_monoeye_dating tfw im 5 8
