Answer for: Would you be willing to give up your personal wealth as the price for living in a sharing society?
#1 No more than I am already
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I pay a lot of taxes, and give generously to charities. From this "wealth" which represents many years of my life that I traded for financial security.
So the real question is: would I be willing to trade a more substantial portion of my life for a (more) sharing society...? No.
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Amen to that! Gets my vote as that is a well said answer!
I would tend to agree with this. I have worked hard all my life since a very young age, earned my way through 10 years of college, 3 degrees. Finally got a job not of constant physical labor. I pay a fair amount of taxes; HOWEVER, I would like to see huge changes in how my tax dollars are spent. Less money for military, higher thresholds for safety net services, blah blah blah. I have close, extremely hard working family members who have fallen through the cracks and died from lack of services, hence I value greater spending towards shit like guaranteed quality health care and housing for all. But money is not infinite, so all I can really do is vote for someone who will put money in places I prioritize.
This whole topic has seemed to have devolved into gross oversimplifications, "Socialism always fails" well gee, what do you consider socialism and what do you consider fail.
"...guaranteed quality health care and housing for all."
Those are tough nuts to crack. Attempts to provide them (that I've examined) tend to produce negative feedback effects -- such that either "quality", or "guaranteed", or "for all" are compromised. Nonetheless, I agree that intervention is needed with healthcare. It's a mess and the system isn't likely to auto-correct itself.