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Acebird:

--- Quote from: Michael Bush on September 28, 2022, 11:34:36 am --- Capitalism is the only system where if you work hard and smart you CAN get ahead.

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Apparently you don't know how Trump did it.  All systems of government have success stories.
Putin, prime example:

--- Quote ---Born in 1952 Leningrad, Putin was a street kid in a city devastated by a horrific, three-year siege by the Nazis during WWII, a genocide described as the world?s most destructive siege of a city. Most of the population of three million people died, one million starving to death. Putin?s father was badly injured in the war, his mother nearly died of starvation. Living in a rat-infested apartment with two other families, the family had no hot water, no bathtub, a broken-down toilet, little or no heat. His father worked in a factory; his mother did odd jobs she could find. A small child, whose two older siblings are believed to have been lost to war and disease, Putin was left to fend for himself, severely bullied by other children.
https://acestoohigh.com/2022/03/02/how-vladimir-putins-childhood-is-affecting-us-all/
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The key to most successes is the willingness to take advantage of people.  Politicians are notorious for this.

Michael Bush:
>The key to most successes is the willingness to take advantage of people.

Not in the long run.  That's how you lose your customer base.  The key to success is to find something people need and fill that need for a price that makes a profit and leaves the customer happy enough to come back for more.  Taking advantage of people is a short sighted view of success.

Acebird:

--- Quote from: Michael Bush on September 29, 2022, 09:54:10 am --- Taking advantage of people is a short sighted view of success.

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I take it you have never heard of a Cartel.  What dictator do you know that is losing success over the long run?

Michael Bush:
>What dictator do you know that is losing success over the long run?

You mean Mussolini?  Hitler?  Idi Amin?  Saddam Hussein? Omar Quaddafi? Noriega? Czar Nicolas? Louis XVI? Charles I? Oliver Cromwell? The list is pretty long...  They mostly lose in the long run.  A few manage to intimidate well enough to keep their position.  Taking advantage of people requires violence or the threat of violence.  Capitalism is about mutually agreed upon commerce.  Government enforced monopolies are not capitalism.  Cartels are not capitalism. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, just to name a couple,  did not become billionaires by taking advantage of people.

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