Socialism is an unfair, exclusionary and paradoxical concept. Giving to the homeless is racist. Prove me wrong.
If we divided all the wealth in the world equally it works out at roughly $50k net worth per person
If we divide global gdp equally it's roughly $15k per person per year
I think we can all agree this is not enough to live a comfortable "middle class" lifestyle. Nobody in their right mind would advocate living that way. Therefor there has to be some inequality.
So why help anyone in the West at all? A homeless person in the US is objectively better off than a slum child in Kolkata, so why would you give your change to the homeless and not the child? Just because he is closer to you? I think most of us can agree national borders are arbitrary and ultimately meaningless and not enough justification to help one person over another. So giving to the homeless guy on your block is discrimination against indian and african kids, plain and simple.
Trying to bring about more income equality within Western countries while keeping developing countries poor is sheer entitlement and hypocrisy.
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>he thinks economics is zero-sum
>>3350005
You don't understand socialism.
>>3350014
fine, replace socialism with "reducing income inequality"
>>3350011
economics is literally the "science" of distributing scarce resources, it is zero sum by definition