Schmoo

Are you seriously suggesting that all it should take to become rich is to do freelance work?

The way people actually get rich is by exploiting the labor of others. Freelance work is only practical in very specific niches, and even then you'll be forced to compete with conglomerates that have far greater resources.

It is inadequate.

*Half of what is left after the CEO and shareholders take their cut. Taxes are a drop in the ocean compared to the excess labor value that is extracted before you even see a penny.

making sure there aren't as much illegal immigrants.

We can do that by legalizing them.

Sovcits are almost certainly under studied, but if I took enough time I'm sure I could find some research showing that less educated people are more likely to fall for scams.

Be right back...

Edit: Here you go

Yes, we're both making claims and using anecdotes to support them and it seems neither of us will move from our positions without stronger evidence. Your claim that most sovcits are either wealthy or educated seems absurd to me, so in a data-poor environment I'm sticking with the simpler of the two options. I'm open to changing my mind, but not with only anecdotes. If you could make a logical case for why sovcits would be mostly educated or wealthy then that could be enough, given neither of us have hard data to give.

The majority of sovcits aren't getting into shootouts with police, those are extreme examples. Most of them are just people trying to get out of paying debt.

Examples are anecdotes.

Just because you can find examples of educated people falling for grifts doesn't mean most people who fall for grifts are educated. Frankly, it's absurd and completely counterintuitive. You would have to show me some hard data to prove that correlation.

Those are just the most visible people due to their wealth and influence. For every rich sovcit there are probably a thousand in abject poverty. They live in rural areas, usually in mobile homes, and fly Gadsden flags. I've known several. Try working for an ISP as an installer or repairman and some might even take a few shots at you.

Killing and revolution is an intrinsic part of transforming society, whether that's from feudalism to capitalism or capitalism to communism. Listen, as an anarchist I'm not personally a fan of China and the Soviet Union either, but the demonization of communism as if it's this brutal and violent ideology is just silly. Violence and brutality are the tools of the state, no matter its' economic system. The actions of China or the Soviet Union are attributable only to China or the Soviet Union, not communism.

If you want to attribute a death to the economic system of communism you have to explain how the economic system resulted in that death. I attribute the deaths of homeless people to capitalism because there is a clear line of causality to follow, but like I said before there are many layers of abstraction and the determination is a subjective and philosophical one. When a cop kills someone capitalism is often a factor, but I don't blame capitalism, I blame the state.