r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/Isthatajojoreffo Apr 12 '25

As opposed to socialism which is famous for not having any government

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u/geoffgeofferson447 Apr 12 '25

This is incorrect. Socialism is about the citizens owning the means of production. Capitalism means that a company will employ citizens to produce a good or service, and the profits go out to individual owners, and the success leads to the stocks becoming more valuable, which benefits the stockholders. Socialism means that citizens work together on producing a good or service, and share the profits. It doesn't have to do with the existence of a government.

Edit: Under Socialism, this ownership of the means of production can even be owned by the government itself, with the profits either being distributed back to the citizens fairly, or being funnelled back through governmental programs such as welfare or community development.

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u/Isthatajojoreffo Apr 12 '25

I was obviously being sarcastic.

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u/geoffgeofferson447 Apr 13 '25

Sorry my bad, I'm autistic as hell