Current Events > Capitalism changes life of Syrian refugee who started out selling pens on street

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/lebanon/12031731/Syrian-refugee-father-who-used-to-sell-pens-on-the-streets-of-Beirut-now-owns-3-businesses.html

In before leftists seek to stifle his businesses into bankruptcy through numerous pointless regulations
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Pretending to care about refugees just to bs about capitalism?
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yawn

Meanwhile, at the business of some spoiled rich white kid from Michigan:

http://fortune.com/2016/12/12/michigan-marxist-vegan-restaurant-closes/
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This is an excellent topic to bring the commie trolls out of the woodwork.

Mal_Fet posted...

http://fortune.com/2016/12/12/michigan-marxist-vegan-restaurant-closes/

@Antifar

Was this your business per chance???
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I'm not a weirdo vegan.
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Antifar posted...

I'm not a weirdo vegan.

oh my b, it just sounded like the type of business you'd run

you know, with the whole "seize the means of production" nonsense
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meingott posted...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/lebanon/12031731/Syrian-refugee-father-who-used-to-sell-pens-on-the-streets-of-Beirut-now-owns-3-businesses.html

In before leftists seek to stifle his businesses into bankruptcy through numerous pointless regulations

umm

his success if from crowdfunding
aka pity

aka socialism
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darkphoenix181 posted...

meingott posted...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/lebanon/12031731/Syrian-refugee-father-who-used-to-sell-pens-on-the-streets-of-Beirut-now-owns-3-businesses.html

In before leftists seek to stifle his businesses into bankruptcy through numerous pointless regulations

umm

his success if from crowdfunding
aka pity

aka socialism

no, his grant money was from that. his success is from running multiple businesses and growing them.

lrn2read
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darkphoenix181 posted...

umm

his success if from crowdfunding
aka pity

aka socialism

Socialism is wealth redistribution at gunpoint. This was a willing investment for a grant, aka capitalism.
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good for him

doesn't change my views though
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I hope he sells enough pens to get that unibrow waxed.

Gasp, a scapegoat! We should just let Oligarchy happen like Mexico.
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You look at this man and think to yourself "that's how society should be, where an honest hard-working individual can rise from poverty and become successful"
It's just that I see this whole situation and think to myself "he should never have been in poverty to begin with"

I want to like capitalism, and I certainly don't think we should go full socialist. I just think we need to move further away from capitalism since it is increasingly dividing the gap between the elite and the common man
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Hinakuluiau posted...

You look at this man and think to yourself "that's how society should be, where an honest hard-working individual can rise from poverty and become successful"
It's just that I see this whole situation and think to myself "he should never have been in poverty to begin with"

I want to like capitalism, and I certainly don't think we should go full socialist. I just think we need to move further away from capitalism since it is increasingly dividing the gap between the elite and the common man

uh capitalism has lifted a billion people out of abject poverty over the last few decades

no other economic system can do that
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and the middle class is disappearing...mostly into the upper class. there's never been more higher mobility than now
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i don't understand how someone went from a super christian to such a petty troll

jk, you've always been a troll

lol
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meingott is my favourite anti-socialist poster because he isn't a dick, just someone with different views than me
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acidic_eggs posted...

meingott is my favourite anti-socialist poster because he isn't a dick, just someone with different views than me

he tried to call someone out in a pejorative manner, presuming they'd be inline with this because of his own biased view

that's kind of being a dick
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good thing he didn't go to college or his life woulda been fucked
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eh hes far more joking with it than most of them
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acidic_eggs posted...

eh hes far more joking with it than most of them

i recognize the username in your sig, so i think you've been here a couple of years

do you even know tc?

daniel is as petty as it gets sometimes
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organicbamf posted...

i don't understand how someone went from a super christian to such a petty troll

jk, you've always been a troll

lol

you got a butt rash or something? i know just the guy who can help with that

@ssj3vegeta
@ssj3vegeta2
@ssj3vegeta_
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i mean recently
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meingott posted...

In before leftists seek to stifle his businesses into bankruptcy through numerous pointless regulations

in a way, paypal and indiegogo did that by taking a cut of the donations
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prince_leo posted...

meingott posted...

In before leftists seek to stifle his businesses into bankruptcy through numerous pointless regulations

in a way, paypal and indiegogo did that by taking a cut of the donations

not really, because if it was a business loan you'd have to pay interest and whatnot. it's the cost of doing business. everyone involved has to win, otherwise it won't work out.
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meingott posted...

not really, because if it was a business loan you'd have to pay interest and whatnot. it's the cost of doing business. everyone involved has to win, otherwise it won't work out.

sorry, I was referring more to the aftermath: http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/27/remember-the-buypens-refugee-well-its-all-gone-a-bit-wrong-5845623/
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Mal_Fet posted...

Meanwhile, at the business of some spoiled rich white kid from Michigan:

http://fortune.com/2016/12/12/michigan-marxist-vegan-restaurant-closes/

They should realize that the reason social and economic hierarchies have been around for so long is because they're effective, while management by group consensus is inefficient and, apparently, dysfunctional. Shockingly, if you manage your business by employee consensus, it'll lack a cohesive direction.
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prince_leo posted...

meingott posted...

not really, because if it was a business loan you'd have to pay interest and whatnot. it's the cost of doing business. everyone involved has to win, otherwise it won't work out.

sorry, I was referring more to the aftermath: http://metro.co.uk/2016/04/27/remember-the-buypens-refugee-well-its-all-gone-a-bit-wrong-5845623/

damn, that's fucked up
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meingott posted...

damn, that's fucked up

yeah, I remember reading about him and being so happy about it
then finding out he may have fucked up. or that maybe she fucked him over. too murky for us to know the truth
and there are the lebanese citizens who are angry at him for being a refugee and succeeding where they don't because they're also feeling the effects of war


just all around fucked up
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He got scammed out of money. Laissez Faire Capitalism at it's finest.
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