Can I ask what use this information would have to you?

It was, unfortunately, yeah.

My freaking God. I volunteered at a local charity org a bit this summer and one of the first things they told us in orientation was that "most people think that poverty is about what people lack. But it's actually a mindset." That pissed me the heck off not gonna lie.

You might need to elaborate. I'm confused at the Bell curve (which is a visual representation of the normal distribution) not having any value at all.

The Central Limit Theorem guarantees that the normal distribution will show up all over the place. To say that it has no value scientifically is simply false.

We have had the solution for hundreds of years. Most people, however, don't want to hear it.

The very system you defend is everything but a neutral experience where everyone can live their lives. You don't think capitalism actively holds people down? Look around.

Except that many of us, including myself, live reasonably comfortable lives under capitalism? It's an extremely selfish position to be satisfied with a system that has done good things for you personally, but has ravaged the lives of countless others.

It's not about free stuff. It has never been about free stuff. It's about the fact that a society is bad if it allows a minority population to get richer, without first ensuring that everyone's basic human needs are satisfied.

Heyo that's dope! Definitely adding that video to my watch later. Thanks for explaining that.

How do reflections work? Aren't changes in direction caused by acceleration? Also aren't photons affected by the gravity of black holes? How does that work?

I understand where you're coming from, but I'm also confused what you expect to happen in the comments of a post like that. Would you rather people be rooting for billionaires in the comments? Or just a couple "damn that's crazy"s? In the former case, there's quite a lot of capitalist apologetics on this platform already, and I honestly envy you if you don't encounter it frequently. In the latter case, personally I would find that boring, though I suppose that's a matter of opinion.

Yeah I getcha. In my mind, capitalism does do a lot of good things, but it always seems to be at the expense of human life. And to me, the good that capitalism brings isn't a justification of the countless lives ravaged in order to make the lives of the privileged comfortable.

I totally agree with you that one has to make certain compromises in order to enjoy life with the cards we've been dealt. We can't be doom and gloom all the time, that's just miserable. However, not everyone has that luxury, as many people have had their lives irreparably destroyed by capitalism. I think it's totally fine and healthy to personally compromise with capitalism, because that's the only way someone has a chance at not living a horrible life. But I do stand by my previous statement that claiming that Nordic "socialism" is evil is not an unreasonable take. Capitalists do run amok in these countries, just not in the same ways as more traditionally capitalist countries.

a little too anti capitalist

Literally impossible for this to apply to somebody. Any amount of pro-capitalism is affording certain exploitative power to the exploiters. You don't think the Nordic countries exploit the Global South? They're better than living in places like the US but democratic socialism is anything but "capitalism but good." Good for who?

Capitalism has proven itself to be an evil, evil system, both in theory and in practice. It's not a reasonable take to compromise with something so vile.

The idea that people like me are somehow the unreasonable ones for wanting to eradicate exploitation instead of defining acceptable levels of systemic pain inflicted, is honestly extraordinarily frustrating.