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Edited by Spawn: 1/28/2016 1:46:17 AM
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Bernie Sanders' Economic Policy explained in Destiny Terms

Bernie Sanders' campaign is built on what he and many others call wealth inequality, his entire economic policy is built on addressing this "issue". In an effort to promote understanding of his widely popular policies I will now explain them and how they work within the scope of Destiny. Let's begin.. Commander Zavala's term is finished and elections are in process to select a new commander of the Vanguard. The Speaker tried running but was deemed "out of touch and too old" for this young generation of guardians. In a close election between Bernie Sanders and Cayde-6, Cayde-6's past habits of boozing and womanizing come out after a string of sexual harassment accusations from Petra Venj and Amanda Holliday. Bernie Sanders ends up pulling ahead and winning after this information becomes public. Sweeperbot mounts an unsuccessful 3rd party campaign. Bernie Sanders is sworn in as Commander of the Vanguard and vows to tackle the problem of wealth inequality among Guardians. Wealth in Destiny consists of a combination of exotics, god-roll legendaries, strange coins, and light level (among other things). Let's face it some guardians are much wealthier than others! Bernie vows to fight this wealth inequality "these 1-percenters have way too much wealth, why does a guardian need a last word, a black spindle, and a chaperone? They can't even equip all of them at once!" Bernie goes on to say "I've seen these 1-percenters, some of them have two Twilight Garrisons, Thorns, Party Crashers with rangefinder and rifled barrel, and HUNDREDS of strange coins. How can an up and coming guardian ever attain that sort of wealth when they're only getting 30 or so strange coins a week? These 1-percenters have all the exotics they could ever need and yet they still horde hundreds of strange coins and three of coins, it's not fair!" To make things "fair" Bernie hikes taxes on guardians that have an "excessive" amount of exotics and strange coins, if you have over 15 exotics you are hit with a 45% tax. You must pay the new Vanguard gov't 45% of your exotics or strange coins. If you have 20 exotics you pay a 60% tax on your exotics and strange coins, and if you have 35+ exotics you pay a 75% tax. It's only "fair". The new gov't then begins to subsidize Xur. As a result, Xur now provides two exotics and 10 three of coins a week to underprivileged guardians for "free". Regular guardians notice a spike in prices for exotics from Xur, armor prices rise to 18 strange coins a piece, weapon engrams rise to 25 strange coins, three of coins are now 10, and legacy engrams (a luxury item) come up to 50 strange coins a piece. Guardians who worked hard for their exotics and strange coins are ridiculed for being "wealthy", they were simply "lucky" they had RNG on their side. Never mind the fact that they spent hours raiding and grinding in Iron Banner, their high light level and collections of exotics/strange coins aren't the result of their hard work, they only have all that because of "luck" and it's "unfair". Bernie's economic policy and crippling taxes destroy all the incentive to raid and grind Iron Banner. "Why would I spend all that time and energy raiding when Bernie is just gonna tax and take most of my hard earned loot?" guardians ask. "Hell I could just sit back, pound some beers, and shoot dregs on patrol while collecting those "free" exotics and three of coins from Xur every week" other guardians say. As a result, wealthy guardians leave the tower, swear their allegiance to the Queen, and move to Reef (taking their exotics, strange coins, and possessions with them). Suddenly, no one is left to pay for the expensive subsidies and programs that supply underprivileged guardians with "free" exotics and three of coins. Without the "wealthy" to tax and pay for the gov't programs, these social programs go insolvent and suddenly Xur stops providing goods to underprivileged guardians. Meanwhile since their is still so much debt the higher prices on Xur's goods remain, sparking a revolt. Both the underprivileged and middle class guardians are unable to afford these high priced exotics and three of coins. The remaining guardians have become dependent on government and expect to be provided with something, however, Bernie's new Vanguard gov't is reeling in debt from providing all these "free" goods and services. The people begin to uprise (just like in every other example of socialism) and a coup is organized to oust Bernie from the Vanguard. One morning Bernie is walking outside with his bodyguard and is attacked by Cayde-6, Bernie and his bodyguard both fire their shotguns but Cayde-6 is 10 feet away and just outside of range. Cayde then quickly dispatches both of them from 10 feet away with his 1000YS sniper. Cayde-6 then embarks on a campaign to make the Vanguard great again. Meanwhile, the Reef has transformed into an economic powerhouse where guardians are eager to work hard, take risks, and keep the rewards of their work. The Reef has low taxes but because there is so much wealth their revenues remain strong, couple this with the fact that the Reef doesn't blow money on redistribution and social programs, and what do you know... They're running a budgetary surplus!! Moral of the story: Capitalism > "Democratic" Socialism Rand Paul 2016 ...and if he doesn't get the nomination any other Republican 2016, they're all more economically literate than Bernie! Edit: Lots of people showing love and lots of people hating. To the haters all I gotta say is supply and demand is LAW. Learn it, live it, love it. Bernie sure doesn't... Edit 2: Over-regulation is a bad thing. In Destiny terms, was Destiny better when it first came out or after all of Bungie's various nerfs and buffs? I think we know the answer... Edit 3: This post sure got crazy, kinda like Bernie Sander's economic policies. For all the haters I have one statement, supply and demand determines value. This is an irrefutable economic truth. Bernie's policies attempt to assign value in opposition to supply and demand. That is why his policies are guaranteed to fail. To everyone that showed some love, YOU ROCK!!

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  • Why isn't glimmer used to pay taxes?

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  • The -blam!- did I just read?

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    • Where is this supply and demand law? Can't find it anywhere.

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      • This would be an accurate comparison if the top 1% of guardians controlled the flow of legendary marks and exotics etc. as it is now, it's ignorant

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      • And those 1% don't pay their share to begin with.

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      • lauging my ass off worth the real words not just am acronym

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      • Rand Paul is the man brah Ya almost lost me when ya said ten feet was outside of shotgun range though I mean this is destiny fam the shotguns are snipers and the snipers are shotguns

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      • Trump 2016

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      • Are you personally rich? If not, voting against Bernie Sanders is voting against your own self interests. Capitalism is a wonderful system - for the rich.

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        • https://youtu.be/LfgSEwjAeno Just going to leave this right here...

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        • Edited by SemperJ550: 1/27/2016 8:31:16 AM
          Dear OP There are two things you [b]never[/b] [b] [u]EVER[/u][/b] talk about on internet boards. Politics and religion. Doing so will cause a small portion of hell to freeze over. Thank you

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        • I don't really think it was the best analogy or set up, but A for effort. Seriously, GJ on all that work you put in.

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        • "you know nothing john snow.." "democratic socialism" keeps rich mans ass safe.. even in medieval times and in ancient roman times they did understand that if the difference between rich and starving poor is too big, the rich normally end up on bonfires, decapped or under the guillotine .. the US is the only country where "socialism" is a swearword and not a mean to keep the peace inside a country.. you wont be able to sustain the inbalance without casualties. on both sides.. and on top capitalism reaches it ends.. since "growth" cant be sustained over a long period of time.. its simply a matter of mathematics.. take a chessboard and put ONE rice corn on field one.. then two on field 2 then 4 on field 3.. lets see how far you can come..

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        • Shit should go in misc chat

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        • Biggest problem in this country, we stop trying new things, the Reps say what they say and the Dems what they say and never really agree, no matter what. The dems might be a little more willing to roll the dice but they are both kind of stuck in their ideas. Clearly I'm more left leaning but that comes with it's own baggage. In general, we need things that work, even if we don't agree with them and there is little of that these days. We all just want to win... Win win win and make money.. Win and make money... You can see what greed and wanting to win has done to Destiny, can you not? I think we know the answer...

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        • This country is falling apart and the majority doesn't see it cause they're busy with the blinding shit social media and television feeds them

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          • You are actually amazing.

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          • You can't see it, but I was smiling through the whole thing. I thoroughly enjoyed every line. It's awesome that you've found a way to explain such an important topic on a gamer level as many of the younger people find it hard to understand. No matter what others below will say, thank you, truly. If you ever need a fireteam member on the PS side, I'd be happy to help. - Rev.

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            • I'm fine with him (: [spoiler](͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)[/spoiler] [spoiler]where do you sit in the social class, OP?[/spoiler]

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            • Bump to fight back against the economically illiterate

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            • Bump for later gonna see what friends think

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            • So no politics are played at game forums? For real? Who gives a shit.

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            • Poor people have been voting democrat for 50 years and they are still poor.

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              • Good thing people who think Sanders is a good choice are too young to actually vote :^) Really though, a person would have to have flunked every math class to support this crazy dumb f[u][/u]uck.

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                • If anyone actually payed attention in high school economics class people would know this..

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                • I am very disappointed in in the company that manufactured this game as much money as I have paid and all of us have paid for the collectors edition that we don't get dedicated servers with a team that monitors the servers constantly to prevent lag switchers and basically people with lag should not be allowed to play with people with good connections I have played over 100 iron banner games in the last 24 hours + 10% of those games are actually good connection and fair games to play I am tired of playing a game where you can't win because somebody knows how to beat the system bungee needs to figure out how to keep the system safe and clean for all of its customers I will say it again I am very disappointed and I've got quite a few choice words I have been with destiny since the beginning of year one and I have been a proud member up until the taking king you got rid of thorn you keep making mistakes by lowering things increasing things make it right and then distribute bungee if you cannot fix this you are going to lose a valued customer and a lot of my friends that I play with constantly will go with me I don't speak much on the forms but this is put me at a level of upset that I have never been in a corporation please help I would like to stay a valued member help me to help you

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