Teach them about statism and tell them you own the bucket and all the candy they gathered and all the candy all their friends gathered. Give them a welfare of a few pieces of candy you gathered. Then tell them to go gather more candy otherwise they’re grounded.
Is statism some term that uneducated Americans with a “gubment bad”-complex uses when they can’t figure out their -isms?
EDIT: Yup. Some neolib “hey why am I not free to exploit people the way I want to? fuck the gubmint!” bullshit that “anarchists” apparently swallow whole. I swear anarchists, anarchocapitalists and neoliberals are the dumbest fuckers around.
It must be nice to live somewhere where the individuals who make up the government are completely altruistic and not selfish or corruptible at all so you can give them extensive power over your life without worry. Unfortunately I have less faith in the unchecked goodness of government workers. I prefer a system built on individuals and free exchange.
It’d be more correct to say that they all own the totality of the candy gathered, because they share the bucket, and as such can democratically allocate the candy.
I like this, I felt like I learned your view better. Unfortunately I’m an individual not a collective. I own my own body and therefore I own the fruits of the labors I endure. I dont think this theoretical democratic “they” should have any say over my body or the products I generate with my efforts.
Will you pay them to collect the candy too?
And in a communist society, the candy belongs to everyone in the neighborhood, so they have to go around passing it out until it’s equally distributed…
Communism isn’t about equal distribution. Communism is about addressing everyone’s needs from everyone’s collective abilities.
No, the buckets would be communally owned, and those who were luckier - perhaps they got to the good houses earlier - would be made to give some of their surplus to Jimmy, who fell ill just that morning and couldn’t go trick-or-treating to not infect others. They’d still have enough, but Jimmy wouldn’t be left out just because he was unlucky.
So how does that work for real life? You going to cut off a bedroom and give it to jimmy? Or give him one of your cars?
BRB gonna buy the bucket off of your kids and give them money so they can go buy their own candy.
Like a true capitalist would.
This is like the level of the boomer meme about teaching kids about taxes.
For every 10 full size snickers you collect, I give you one loose m&m.
I also put a couple of your siblings up for adoption right before Halloween to let you know you’re expendable.
If it bothers you, you can always go talk to your mom, who empathises, so that you feel good enough to get back to collecting my our candy. But she will immediately come tell me everything you said.
You ungrateful worm… After all I’ve done for you?
Did you mean to say that the mom is empathetic? Because emphasising has a different meaning.
