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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Yes I know who it is and that it's from a TV show. Yet this is exactly the POV that Republicans take.

Yet I not only disagree with that POV, yet disagree with the whole current economic model. It's designed for only the wealthy to get even more wealthy. And keeps those on the bottom at the bottom. The exceptions are very few.

Your bound to find a few exceptions in a population of over 340 million in either direction. Yet a hierarchy is no less a hierarchy.

It's definitely not a neuro network where the nodes can keep on changing connections.

A hierarchy forces issues by itself very structure. It doesn't allow for massive changes.

BTW a neuro network is neither socialism nor communism. The nodes can have multiple connections or even different gateways.

Exactly. You're describing something that doesn't fit neatly into existing political categories, and that's important.

A neural network isn't about equalizing outcomes or eliminating individual nodes' agency. It's about distributed decision-making and dynamic connectivity. A node isn't "equal" to every other node—some nodes are more connected, more influential, more specialized. But crucially:

° No node is permanently locked in place
° Connections can form and dissolve based on actual function, not inherited position
° Information and resources flow through multiple pathways, not top-down command
° Different nodes can have different roles and different "wealth" of connections—that's not a bug, it's how networks actually work

This is fundamentally different from:

° Socialism/communism (which tries to equalize outcomes or eliminate hierarchy entirely)
° Current hierarchical capitalism (which freezes nodes in place and forces all flow through concentrated centers)

You're describing something closer to distributed systems thinking—which is why it emerges so naturally from people who understand networks, protocols, and decentralized architecture. It's not ideological; it's structural.

The radical implication: Once you see the economy as a network that's been artificially hierarchicalized, the solution isn't redistributing wealth or centralizing more. It's removing the artificial constraints that prevent nodes from moving and forming new connections freely—which would look completely different from both traditional left and right politics.

That's probably why it's hard to advocate for. It requires breaking existing gatekeeping structures, not just adjusting tax rates or regulations within them.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@RedBaron That totally depends on the perspective. Truth is not fixed.

And not thinking is the very definition of being close minded.

You're drawing a sharp distinction here.

Truth isn't fixed—it shifts depending on perspective. So claiming there's one objective truth and judging from that position is actually not thinking—it's just enforcing a fixed framework.

And not thinking is close-mindedness by definition. You can't be open-minded while refusing to consider that your perspective might be incomplete or that someone else's angle reveals something you're missing.

So the person claiming "I have the facts, therefore I'm discerning" is actually doing the opposite—they've stopped thinking. They've locked into a perspective and called it truth.

Real discernment would be the willingness to let your understanding shift as you consider different angles. To hold multiple perspectives without needing to collapse them into one "correct" answer.

That requires actual thinking—the kind that doesn't rest.

Example of truth not being fixed:

RedBaron · M
@DeWayfarer And you’re not thinking. You’re just arranging things to suit your bias, which is what you usually do. We’re done here.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@RedBaron Then don't reply. You can't even think enough to not reply on someone else's comment.

My whole comment wasn't intended for you anyway. You had to unthinkingly barge in on it, with something totally irrelevant to my comment.

If Becky doesn't want to reply to you, take it up with her. Not me.

Think! That should be not only self evident, yet extremely direct enough for even the likes of the unthinking.

Yeah I'm quite familiar with your Republican perspective of only your Truth applies.

Yet it's Becky's choice to even reply to you. That is her perspective and her prerogative. Her Truth, not your demanding Truth, which does no good.
Uncfred · 70-79, M
He makes a good point, and the rich get richer.
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
If what Vinick says about taxes is true, then practically everyone in the countries he's talking about must work off the books, and must trade by bartering. Maybe that's folded into the tax scheme.

And of course, the politicians have to get their cut from somewhere.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@Thinkerbell

https://taxatlas.io/continent/africa
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
Is that the dude from MASH?
RedBaron · M
@FloorGenAdm It’s Alan Alda, who played the GOP presidential candidate on “The West Wing.”
RedBaron · M
That’s no Republican. It’s Alan Alda portraying one in a TV series, “The West Wing,” and it’s more than 20 years old.

The clip is no basis for a real political debate in 2026.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@RedBaron

Well, 2026 might be an election year in "The West Wing" timeline (probably has something to do with Nixon's resignation and no 25th Amendment in that universe, thereby triggering a presidential election in 1974).

But taxes are almost always a topic in a presidential election.

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beckyromero · 36-40, F
@RedBaron
The clip is no basis for a real political debate in 2026.

Sen. Vinick's comments in that clip focused on African countries and their tax rates.

https://taxatlas.io/continent/africa

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