Quote from: Free Market Capitalist on Today at 03:40:15 PM

What is clear is that, as a good socialist, what drives you is envy: what bothers you is that there are people who earn more money than you, and for that reason you would prefer everyone to become poorer.

Don't you think we've fallen off so far as a society if people are accused of envy and jealousy when they call out things they believe to be wrong with the system? If a person believes a system is meant to favour the upper class, it doesn't necessarily mean they're socialist or want everyone to be poor.
Throughout the campaign, I kept seeing Trump's party calling everyone else socialist. If people request a certain thing to be subsidised, for example, they will be branded socialist because "they want to earn what they didn't work for".
How did we get here?
There have always been systems in place so that those who are poor or the lower class will be able to benefit from the state, too, so if that system is being jeopardised and people are speaking against it, it doesn't mean they're socialist or whatever. It is the job of the government to make life easier for its citizens; they don't have to be wealthy, except the person is not ready to work at all.

Quote from: Die_empty on Today at 03:35:09 PM

There were indications that some of his friends had prior knowledge about his tariff policies. Some of them take advantage of this inside information to make more money.

His tariff policy was no secret. He stated it during his campaign.
Any good businessperson will take advantage of it if they're in a business where they can take advantage. It was no secret. These are the things Trump's campaign was based on. His campaign was based on immigration and tariffs. He said all these things during his campaign, so I don't understand why people are pretending to be surprised now. All the things Trump is doing now are the things he said he would do, but I guess it seemed cool to people during that period, or they just didn't think it through.