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Socialism. Production and distribution is owned by the community (government).

It has nothing to do with "Handouts". Or helping your neighbor really.

There is no redistribution of wealth. That is communism.

Socialism with handouts is communism.

You could have a completely Socialistic society that let's some of it's people starve because it benefits the majority.

A great example to look at socialism is the nazi party creating Volkswagen.

People in Germany needed an affordable car. They created the production and distribution of affordable cars, owned and operated by the controlling government party.

Now, you can debate all you want on if it was a good or bad idea.

Average German looking for simple affordable car? Probably would think it was a good idea.

Rich German looking for a Duesenberg? Probably hates the idea of Volkswagen and spending their tax dollars on it.

Poor German? They aren't getting a car anyways

A large government can easily have a monopoly on a good or service.

If that's a good or bad thing is debatable

For example, say America was 100% Socialistic.

Government would gain access to all satalites and towers and issue the Volkstelefon. Affordable phone and internet for everyone!

Sounds great?

Imagine if tomorrow Trump issued his phone in that style.

Probably not a good idea?

So why all the hate?

ELI5: Because socialism is not always the right answer just like capitalism isn't always the right answer.

Thing is you can't make everyone happy.

Daylight savings time sole objective is to move 1 hour of sunlight in the morning to the evening.

I'm not sure how it's supposed to help farmers unless they want to sleep in and work an extra hour into the evening. I think that it helping farmers is more of a myth.

So much of DST is misunderstood

Most people I have heard hate daylight savings time because "the sun sets so early in the winter"

Yet that's the outcome of not staying on permanent DST. Winter is standard time.

Others hate the switch. Once again it's because we don't stay permanently on one.

I'm with you though, I enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evening.

Let's look at NY city.

June 21th longest day, sunrise is at 5:24 am (Set 8:31 pm)

December 21th longest night, sunrise is at 6:42 am (Set 4:32 pm)

If you got rid of daylight savings time then the sun would rise at 4:24 am in June and set at 7:31 pm.

(Most people in NY probably want the extra hour of light at 7:31 pm instead of 4:24 am)

If you kept permanent daylight savings then the sun would rise at 7:42 am in December and set at 5:32 pm)

(Most people in NY probably want some light before 8 because it's going to be dark after dinner anyways)

So many people are awake before 8 am compared to 5 am

So many people enjoy the light at 7:30 pm in the summer

Switching really is the sweet spot for NY

Location is definitely important too in hating or liking DST

Ontonagon, Mi sun sets at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)

Dexter, Me sun sets at 4:10 pm tonight (6:33 am rise)

Same time zone, both northern cities.

If we didn't get off DST Ontonagon wouldn't see the sunrise until almost 9 am today

People in Dexter might have preferred to stay on DST getting light between 7:33 am to 5:10 pm today

The farther west you live in a time zone the less you like DST generally. Farther east, the more you like it.

Ontonagon is so west it should really be in Central Time zone.

If that was the case then the sun would set at 4:25 pm tonight (6:58 am rise) (basically Dexter ME times)

At that point they might want to stay on DST and it would make it exactly what it was today, sunset at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)

Should just have dimes.

$1.1 $1.2 $1.3

There's no reason to break our currency into thousandths. Hardly a reason to break it into hundredths.

Could keep quarters to keep hundredths

Transactions already need a nickel to do 5 cents. So requiring a quarter to do 5 cents isn't crazy.

Say you have to pay $1.05

Dollar and 3 dimes, quarter in change.

$1.15

Dollar and a quarter, dime in change.

But I think just dimes are needed

You've never seen Maximum Overdrive

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 5:17

He calls and orders a pizza

Steepness has nothing to do with time.

Say your goal was to climb a 20km mountain

If it was a steep mountain it would be harder than a flat dune mountain.

If you could walk at a max speed of 10km an hour both mountains would take 2 hours to climb.

X-axis: Time Y-axis: Difficulty

Example Yo-yoing.

Doesn't have steep learning curve. You can throw a yo-yo and get it up fairly easy. As you practice the difficulty of things you can do goes up.

It's learning curve would look like

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Example wake boarding.

Does have a steep learning curve. You more than likely will be dragged under water a couple times and probably fall as soon as you get up the first time to be dragged under water again. But once you get the hang of it it becomes second nature.

It's learning curve would look like

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Steepness is the difficulty required to move on in time

Some form of torture. The thing about torture is you can always add "and then..."

Psychological and physical

Imagine being forced to rip off your significant other's fingernail.

And you might say "There's no way I'd do that"

Sadly you will. Either to save yourself or them from more torture.

You will do it, we all would. That's scary.

I'm half Mexican half Finnish. Strange mix. Pure white.

I understand the hardship

Random people do not think my father is my father.

I've been stopped multiple times by police walking with him to make sure I was okay when I was a kid. All good, just walking around the neighborhood with my dad lol.

Edit: It's also funny growing up people asking me who our gardener was. Also my dad.

I remember my grandfather telling me a story about how he didn't know which bathroom to use when he came to the US and someone told him to use the white.

Interesting

I'm a white hotel towel Mexican

Always thought it was strange to mark "White, Hispanic" on everything because that was an option always growing up. Like you all really do need to know my skin color don't you.

If you didn't know my last name you'd never guess I wasn't "American"