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bucolic_frolic

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5. That proposal is part way to nationalizing private industry

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 12:10 PM

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People built it, it's all a sovereign wealth fund, people get payments from it. Trouble is there went incentive to work, innovation, at least from a money income standpoint. Work becomes intellectual prowess. Lord knows America has precious little of that in the general population.

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