PizzaMan, (edited )

I'm done arguing this point, as I'm not an economist or a game theorist, and you're not either.

I'm probably more of a game theorist than you if I am being honest. I've done game development on the side for a little while now.

But I think my point still stands because you haven't identified a flaw in my argument.

We can lose all of our material possessions, and all of our food

People can't afford to do that though. It is a financially bad decision to put yourself at financial risk of losing your home, transportation, or food source.

The government has a responsibility to protect our nation as an institution; not to protect us each individually.

And the government cannot protect one if it fails to protect the other. Our nation is our people. It's not just the land itself.

Except it's not. You frequently come across as confidently incorrect.

It's objectively true:

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

If corporations were not greedy there would be no gap between productivity and pay.

Do you have any awareness that 99.9% of businesses in the US are small businesses?

You already brought this up in a different thread. You may have missed it so I will copy and paste:

  • I'm not sure that data is really helpful for determining true business size since so many people have more than one job, and corporations like to own other corporations to hide how big they are. And employee count is only one factor in how big a business is. Market share, net worth, profit, all of which contribute to a business' size. It also doesn't take into account the power/influence a company has. A media company of 20 people has far more power and influence over a pizza shop for instance. A restaurant/grocery store might only employee about 50 people in total but have a fraction of the market share for the local area or no market share at all on a regional/national level. And on the other hand a landlord might own a company with 10-20 people, and owns a huge chunk of the city's housing.

In other words, judging a company of less than 500 employees as automatically being a small business is a terrible methodology for determining how much power/how big a company is.

Other thread: https://kbin.social/m/conservative@lemmy.world/t/305925/New-York-City-Using-Brooklyn-Parks-as-Migrant-Housing#entry-comment-1680242

Please start a business. The only reason you have not to is if you're afraid of realizing that your entire economic theory is bunk.

I have plenty of reasons. I don't want to lose what little assets I have. The time and effort requirements for such an endeavor is huge. I have no capital to start a business with. I have a disabled girlfriend who requires a lot of care (time). On top of all that, I don't really intend to live my whole life in this country, and feel I might have to leave soon due to the rise in fascism here. Why would I start a business in such a place? It just doesn't make sense.

As is I barely have enough time at the end of the day to relax to myself, let alone start a business.

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