▲ | propagandist 9 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> You seem to think awfully highly of your ability to reason about the world, but I find your claim to be fairly lacking. This all reads like the ramblings of a 19 year old who just discovered Chomsky. Address the argument rather than engaging in ad hominem. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | ch4s3 9 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It really isn't an argument. You have tons of meaningful economic choices everywhere in American life. You can bank with any bank and look for competing offers for credit to do useful things. For example you can buy a home and shop for a better interest rate by taking an offer for a loan from one lender to another and 9 times out of 10 you'll come away with a better offer. But you can easily not take on a loan and choose to preference flexibility and therefore rent. This housing choice involves a myriad of sub choices about lifestyle, commuting preferences, school adjacency, and other elements you may want to balance. Because US state are often quite different in character and economic and social opportunity you have a ton of dimension along which you can exercise choice. Someone posting here likely has access to remote work and can meaningfully choose to live in a quite mountain town in West Virginia with satellite internet where you never see more than a few people every week, or you could live in a mid sized city like I do and get involved in neighborhood organizations. Similarly you could move to NYC and live in a small apartment an spend all of your time going out to bars and restaurants. These are SUPER meaningful choices on an individual level. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | 2OEH8eoCRo0 9 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Show me the Americans stuck in a black hole where nobody processes their payment, banks won't handle their money, they can't vote, they can't travel, etc. because of their deviations? There are total nutjobs of all walks that are living just fine. There are actual Nazis and commies living just fine. It's a big country. If our whole society already has dystopian social credit it should be easy to find examples. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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