He uses alts to make himself seem loved and backed up on the site. Swordfish was him.

Is poverty not a byproduct of capitalism?

No. Poverty proceeded capitalism. The idea that poverty is not the norm is a byproduct of capitalism.

It's not very free for the poor now is it?

It's not slavery. Whether you are free depends on whether other people compel or constrain you. It has nothing to do with the non-coercive circumstances of your life.

You are only free if you have money

That's incorrect. Freedom is not the ability to act, it's the absence of someone halting or compelling action.

I would argue that he is actually quite trapped by a fictional set of social constructs that are designed to benefit the 1% and keep him working to produce profit for them rather than himself.

Yeah. You argue it all the time, but never successfully. No one is beholden, except by promise, to the person they decide to trade with. Nor does me paying you make me a villain.

So you admit that capitalism is not meritocratic

As I've consistently maintained, if only you would read, capitalism is better for merit than for any other system. Your simplistic anecdotes to the contrary notwithstanding.

Life happens, and is often not fair from an individual's perspective. But economic freedom is the most fair system ever implemented in an unfair world.

The fact that you refer to capitalism as "economic freedom" proves that you were always privileged and thus given freedoms that those starving children were not given.

You have some things to learn about proofs. "Economic Freedom" is synonymous with "Capitalism". There are less starving children because of increases in economic freedom, following the USSR getting the fuck out of the way (making it ok for India and China to increase economic freedom) If I could, I would bring economic freedom to the rest of the starving children.

Only the privileged could be narrow sighted and shallow enough to think that way.

You know a lot about me that isn't true. Your arrogant conceit affirms my gratitude that people like you aren't in a position to affect me at all.

What you are failing to consider is that those decisions are made within a social context of capitalism. Thus capital is what decides how resources are distributed and the very fact that we distribute them based on capital influences people's decision making process.

I wish you would read a relevant book so you could start to know what you're talking about. Would you like recommendations?

This computer that I am typing on? Is capital. If I get a small business loan (the way most business owners did) for a 3d printer, I'm the newest manufacturer in town. If you make a living selling wood carvings, then your whittling knife is capital. Capital flows in varying degrees of concentration in various sectors. The economic history of capitalism has seen the means of production become more diffuse over time. That's the main reason why only the deceitful and the ignorant want to be rid of it. I don't take you for deceitful.

it encourages you to rip people off in every way possible

You're providing an example of why short run thinkers make bad businessmen. Companies act dishonestly, that's true. But consumers and competition inevitably discover this and the dishonest actor suffers. There is a disincentive for dishonesty, even more so with the mass availability of information. Such high degrees of forced honesty have opened the door for things such as ride share and air B&B. Such trust in strangers with so little negative effect could never have been heard of before.

what is optimal for the capitalist is making the most profit you can make at the least expense

Making the most profit is optimal. This isn't because of capitalism, this is because of life. If a business wishes to be competitive in winning over buyers (since we can't force them either), it must reduce cost, so that it can reduce price. Now more poor people can afford more, thanks to profit. There are less poor people than ever before, thanks to profit. There are more rich people than ever before, thanks to profit. The poor are richer than ever before, thanks to profit. Incredibly, there are more free things now than ever before, thanks to profit.

No one who is looking at the history and the facts can ever again condemn capitalism on false zero-sum-game arguments. You have to look elsewhere.

your resources arbitrarily go where the state or your boss prefers under capitalism.

It's true that taxes forcefully take my resources for things beyond my preference, but you'll find capitalists want less taxes and less tax funded boondoggles. As for the rest, my resources go where I direct them. To claim otherwise is an extraordinary claim with no evidence whatsoever. You don't even know my circumstances.

It sounds to me that you're just putting words in his mouth because you don't understand what he is really advocating.

Disagreement does not equal misunderstanding.

It's remarkable to me that you can make so many assumptions about someone

That's rich.

the probable fact that you are a privileged lad who fails to comprehend the problems that capitalism creates, because for you it has created nothing but a free ride.

Like I said, rich.

It's not wealth that has fostered my love of capitalism. Get it through your skull; attacking your assumptions about the personal life of an anonymous online opponent only speaks to your bias. You know little about economics and nothing about me.

Poverty is a human invention

Tell it to the cavemen, who lived in opulent wealth.

Scarcity has always existed. The formal institutions that protect economic freedom are those that protect property rights for the masses rather than the few, and the rule of law with no one above it. These are relatively new ideas, as is economic freedom. These institutions and the capitalism they enable have made scarcity less of a problem for less people than ever before in human history. Your singing Marx's tune which was false when he said it, and the emperors new clothes today.

Because as he already said, if life was not fair for it's natural "survival of the fittest" reasons he would not complain.

His bitching doesn't become justified just because he is ignorant of how the world works. Especially not when he refuses to learn.

But instead life is not fair because of a system of human invention...holds the fit back from reaching their potential.

No it doesn't. Life can get in the way. But you/FM are held back because you are unfit. The problem is not the system, it's you. Change yourself.

Your own baseless assertions prove your bias towards capitalism and your hatred for anyone who tries to take away your free ride on the backs of the working class.

Now you're just trolling. My assertions about capitalism are rooted in economic theory, economic history, and statistics. Your baseless assertions concern my personal life which you cannot know anything about. Personal experience is not relevant on a site like this. And besides, I get called a liar by you two retards enough as it is.

Notice how you have made at least a dozen assumptions about evilnom

Quote all twelve motherfucker.

However many you find, you'll show that they are based on his behavior on this site. I said I don't hate him because I don't know him. His ideas and character on this site is what is so contemptible.