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People who defend capitalism always say that it forces people to make their own choices and it rewards people who make smart choices.

But I think this is to a large extent bullshit. A lot of people's choices in life are pure luck. Me and my workmate have the exact same job. But he got that job when he was young, and I got it when I was middle aged. I was unemployed for a long time. He is not better at doing the job than I am. I was not more suitable for the job when I got it than I was when I was the same age he was when he got the job. He got a question if he wanted to start saving for retirement when he was at the bank at a young age, I didn't. As a consequence he will have more money when he retires even though he saves way less per month for retirement.
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what is your job? i need a job
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>>540705611

> A lot of people's choices in life are pure luck.

Stop complaining, loser. It was all your own making.

You can train your luck, either by spotting better chances, or by exposing yourself to luck more often.

The first strategy is to become an expert in something, ideally at a young age like your colleague. The 2nd one is to go out and talk to people and be curious, which you apparently weren't for the longest time given your unemployment record.

Beyond that it's also that your luck starts compounding like interest. This means for one that as soon as you start optimizing your behavior to have luck, you will have more luck as a result. Over time though, the lucky instances will grow also in quality. This means much better outcomes at a later stage than at an ealier one.

Bottom line: It's all your own making and now go back to Somalia.
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>>540705611
So you're mad he'll die with an unspent $500,000 in the bank while you'll die with $300,000?
This is a complete non-problem, but if you don't like it feel free to go live in Cuba or some other shithole.
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>>540705806
didn't read, fuck off
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>>540706222
fuck off
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>>540705611
i was promoted several times in 4 years. i worked hard, of course, but my boss has a similar autistic personality and there was a lot of favorable turnover and restructuring. i was in the right place at the right time. luck was a huge component.
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>>540706785
Holy fuck you're a whiny cunt.
You're on 4chan ffs.
What do you expect.
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>>540705611
> capitalism rewards people who make smart choices
> capitalism has failed because I made stupid choices

Seems like the system works exactly how you described it, so what’s the problem?
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>>540705611
Thank god capitalism sensed that you are really resentful person and punished you for it.
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My dad is a billionaire.

I am given several billion dollars in a trust fund that invests. It automatically grows while giving me monthly interests and dividends.

That amount is more than what wagecucks make in 5 years. And I didn't do a damn thing.

Checkmate losers.
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Much of one’s success or struggle in life is indeed due to luck.
Ask any historian the top three things which allow someone to rise and luck will be one of them.
That isn’t to say that working hard or being prepared doesn’t contribute to, but I know a lot of hard working people who aren’t very successful. I also know some lazy dummies who have fallen into wealth.
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>>540706755

> where' tldr?

Stop complaining, loser. [..] now go back to Somalia.
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>>540705611
That’s not luck. Your parents should have stayed on top of financial trends and taught you how to plan for retirement. You should have looked for a job sooner. You have no one to blame but yourself first then your parents. No ambition from you or your parents. Are you a shit skin? You sound like one.
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>>540705611
Under capitalism there is more opportunity to be lucky. All you damn leftists do is complain. Bunch of whiners. Sweden could be so great if it wasn't infected with socialist thinking.
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>>540707135
It is luck to have been born to financially-savvy and caring parents.
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so sick of dumb whiny bitches like op
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>>540707229
No it isn’t. Any parents that have grown up as a native citizen in first world understand about retirement. It’s actually based on intelligence. In the past it was exposure to knowledge and education however today it’s simply intelligence there’s no barrier to entry.
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>>540706755
>didn't read, fuck off
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>>540705611
What is this picture supposed to mean exactly?
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>>540705806
Lol nice rage bait
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>>540707274
It’s luck to have been born parents that have grown up as a native citizen in first world
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Great fucking arguments, retards.

Also another aspect of it is that capitalist society is filled to the brim with manipulation. Advertising, lying suits, etc. And you may not like the truth, but the truth is you are not as autonomous as you believe. Whether you like it or not you are being manipulated. Also, you don't need 6k toasters to choose from. Your time is better spent writing a poem than thinking about which toaster or pair of sneakers to buy. Capitalism is brainrot.
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>>540708072
The argument was framed within the first world to begin with so that’s irrelevant.
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E Michael Jones has written about this a lot, for example in The Ratcatcher and A Coney Island of the Mindless.
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>>540705611
Capitalism is bullshit, I havent had to work a day in my life and Ive got a 3 bedroom house and 5 cars while most people my age seem ti complain about not being able to afford RENT, its literally all luck
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>>540708096
It’s not capitalism per say, it’s all modern humanity. It’s understandable you have such a limited perspective of being a new immigrant.
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>>540705611
We will all die anyways and life goes by super fast, just be grateful that you were born as a swede.
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>>540707488
Whores or prisioners
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>>540708344
Kek
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>>540705611
>People who defend capitalism always say that it forces people to make their own choices and it rewards people who make smart choices.
Never met anyone claiming that.
why you leftist and commies always make up shit out of your ass as an argument?
Every single person who runs his own business or even plays on stock market knows you have to have good amount of luck and being in right place in right time plus knowing right people on right occasions to make it work. Of course your own work is also important to adjust luck and to get to know these people.
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>>540705611
Skill issue

Sorry you wasted your youth fucking around, hope it was a good time at least
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>>540706222
>dieing with money
>not spending every bit and giving it all away tax free before death
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>>540708096
In Sweden, toasters must be tandem

This is because homes and kitchens are too small to accommodate the modern 1st world 2x2 toaster
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>>540705611
>I didn't have forethought and needed my hand held
Take some responsibility.
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>>540705611
Your argument basically boils down to "life isn't fair," which is obviously true under any economic system. Nobody believes every outcome is purely the result of merit. He got the opportunity earlier and took it.
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Literally every fucking reply is ad hominem. Literally not a single fucking person on this board knows even the first thing about argumentation and critical thinking, despite always claiming to be fucking great at it innately and therefore not needing to study a single page of it. Illiterate fucking subhumans.
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>>540709016
> Literally every fucking reply is ad hominem

Cry
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>>540705806
>>540707080
Tl,dr: uncreative and boring wagie cope from the most cucked country on earth.
>muh somalia (twice)
I know exactly what type of insufferable Friedrich Merz boomer type you are, kek. You are nothing but a Knecht. Actual Somalians have more freedom than you lmao. Now go back to work, Knecht,my neetbux don't pay themselves
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>But I think this is to a large extent bullshit. A lot of people's choices in life are pure luck. Me and my workmate have the exact same job. But he got that job when he was young, and I got it when I was middle aged. I was unemployed for a long time. He is not better at doing the job than I am. I was not more suitable for the job when I got it than I was when I was the same age he was when he got the job. He got a question if he wanted to start saving for retirement when he was at the bank at a young age, I didn't
Maybe if you took some fucking initiative of your own, you would be in a better fucking situation, you weak pathetic fucking idiot.

So what, you expect a good job, pensions savings, etc. to just be provided for you? That someone needs to remind you to save for your retirement? You're supposed to fucking take responsibility for yourself. That is what being a grown-up is.
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>>540709104

> treffer
> versenkt

lol
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>>540709016
Interesting how you never responded to anything I said.

The first point of contention based on your post is simply why didn’t you take the position earlier if you had the ability to and we qualified?

Second point of contention. Why don’t you understand retirement in a First world country you were born in?

Third point of contention. Do you have Parents are you a foster child? Do they not understand the implications of retirement in the country that they were born in?
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>>540705611
As ive gotten older Ive realized that most people are missing a hemisphere of their brain, and normies are insufferable cattle. I dont want commie shit but I feel there should be something better than this to steer masses into something more productive and fulfilling than buying a flatscreen TV for their bathroom, where they dont have time to even watch TV.
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>>540709404
I think most people agree that the system is completely broken for a vast majority of people. The unchecked immigration is a testament to that. No one wants their culture erased in the name of infinite growth to proper pension funders because those empower need to maintain a control matrix over the people. However OP is a disgruntled non-communicative personality.
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>>540705611
Capitalisms whole point is forcing you to be a wagie for a megacorp that can then controll you. Thats all it is.

Capitalism does not make you creative in fact creative poeple are eliminated by bureaucracy. Only rich nepo babies with 10 accountants and lawyers under them can use creativity to create something. Since they have poeple that do grunt work for them and connections that enable them to actually do something.

Capitalism is not
> I make bread
>poeple like bread
>I expand bread productions
>I earn 100ds of milions

It never worked like that. Best case scenario some rich banker jew gives me funding and gets to hold on to 95% of profit while I run the buisness for 20 years under huge stress and can afford to not work and have a nice house and a car.

Thats the best case scenario.
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>>540705611
Normal societies create guard rails to secure its members, judeo American capitalism demands the erosion of such guard rails which in turns allows jews to fuck with people as they see fit.
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>>540705611
>he thinks we have choices
life is much more deterministic than we like to admit
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>>540709579
Capitalism encourages the spread of social parasitim, since it's easier to just create fiat generating machines than it is to actual produce somehing.
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>>540709579
>It never worked like that. Best case scenario some rich banker jew gives me funding
Damn you are retarded.
Capitalism literally worked like that before central banking.
What you have now with central banking is not free capitalism. It is centraly steered market that forces people to go through banks and government to run business.
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>>540709785
Not only that but parasitic sectors actively work to destroy production. Even if some dude wants to produce chese and earn barely above average wagie they slap him with costly inspections. Make the ground of his farm expensive esentialy money printer jews kill all production. Thats their goal. Import everything and starve without money that they controll.
>>540709812
When was it like that literally never. Maybe in american wild west. Thats more lawlessnes than capitalism. I could pretend croatian military fronthier was free market because no one could tax you other than raiding armies.
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>>540705806
>You can train your luck

kek
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>>540705611
right looks better
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>>540705611
LMAO! OP just figured out as a middle ged man that life isn't fair lol everyone give OP a cookie
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>>540705611
>let me tell you what you believe
>"forces"

A dishonest commie? No wayyyy. Capitalism is fundamentally about freedom, not forcing people to do anything. Socialism is the system that forces people into its rigid ways and offers no alternative.
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>>540705611
Luck?

Choice is an illusion, dumbass.


You never had one.
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>>540708779
No child with little to no life experience will ever have proper forethought. Why do you expect people with a lack of real life experience to have proper forethought? That's as stupid as expecting high schoolers to know exactly what they want to do in life.
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>>540709404
>forcing the exceptional to crawl through the dirt

Everybody likes to think they will be one of the exceptional few.
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>>540713019
freedom to choose between 6k toasters, not freedom to write a poem instead of deciding between 6k toasters
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There's a reason communist China doesnt invent things, and its not because socialism is making people's lives better. There's a reason the biggest communist regimes are all running the biggest corporate espionage



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