Posted on 12/10/2023 9:25:20 AM PST by FarCenter
Property tax id far cheaper then buying a house the down payment alone will pay for the taxes.
Slackers always has an eye on the easy way out.
There are plenty of “white” Mohammedans and have been since the early centuries of Izzlam.
They conquered the Sassanid Iranians - who are and were “white”. In the 9th century there were many “white” Mohammedans from Iran, from Spain, from Turkey etc.
Today there are “white” Mohammedans from Albania, Bosnia, Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, not to mention converts from British, etc. backgrounds.
>>It thrives on change and when it stopped growing and striving, it turned against itself.
The combination of scientific realism, democracy, and capitalism is well adapted to the age of exploration, colonialism, and industrial progress. It enables rapid growth in an era of high resource availability compared with population.
It is not clear what the best alternatives are in environments where resources per capita are stagnant or declining.
It appears that philosophical idealism is growing and the outlook is shifting from realism to one where people feel that if something can be thought of, then it can be realized.
Similarly, populist democracy tends to prioritize short term consumption and not have the discipline needed to accumulate productive resources instead, setting up a conflict between democracy and capitalism.
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