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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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  • Edited by Racebum: 1/27/2016 2:00:57 AM
    i can't fault you for liking rand. he's a decent person....probably the only one in the GOP every current candidate wants to spend one way or another. the tax breaks the right wants will inflate prices. bernie will raise taxes....but you know...at least with bernie i get something for it there's no direct correlation with bungie or IB or anything here, none it's also convenient people harp about socialism then pay into social security, use free high school, use medicare, use paid time off. all socialist ideals stop watching fox news, go to a real college

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    • Thing is, some are not waiting around on their ass waiting to happen. They could be working 2 jobs and still not be able to make a decent living. Take LA for example. Wages will increase, but housing already is out of control. There needs to be a solution to this

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    • Comparing earned profits to rng? Dosen't add up to me op.

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    • Unfortunately, even when this is relatable to the many bernie supporters that play destiny, you can't get through to these brainwashed people. They just want everything handed to them on a silver platter. It takes hard work and dedication to get somewhere in life, not sitting on your ass waiting for something to happen.[spoiler]Wake the -blam!- up.[/spoiler]

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      • Preach brother, PREACH!

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      • I feel like a slow clap is needed here.

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      • The problem is that most people vote based on their party, not on whether the policies of a specific person is necessarily what is right for our country. People are too blinded by the titles of Democrat and Republican to make correct decisions.

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      • democratic socialism cannot exist in a capitalist economy. across the world anything other than capitalism cannot exist. for the simple reason we attach value to things any idealists in their ivory tower who think they can balance that system of power are idiotic at best. why people listen to them is beyond me.

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        • From what I've seen, the three most talked about candidates are Hillary, Sanders, and Trump. All of them horrible in their own way... Someone needs to make a joke out of this, cause the reality is much more frightening than it is funny.

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        • lol [spoiler]f-ck politics tho[/spoiler]

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        • Destiny and Politics don't mix. Your post is funny, but I feel like this is how trends start. Please don't get real world political BS mixed in with my game. I'm trying to avoid that nonsense.

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        • So far only positive comments lol, either most destiny players are capitalists or I've caused some sort of economic epiphany for the Sanders supporters on here

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        • Maybe all the idiots on here can understand it in Destiny terms.

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          • You'll get hate, for sure lol But I think this is very well put together, nice work

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          • Screw sanders

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          • Mega super bump

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          • I'm just glad no one is fget' enough on here to vote Trump.

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          • Bravo

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          • Filibuster

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          • Capitalism rewards hard workers, socialism does not. If you care for an explanation check the spoiler [spoiler]Ok so, let's say that someone works really hard in school and they get an A in a class. They get rewarded with Honor Roll, possibly their parents could give them an allowance (if that's the type of parent they are), and another person doesn't work hard at all and gets a C. They don't amount to much. That's capitalism. Fair, no? Hard work= Reward. Socialism then comes in, and just says: let's give everyone a B. Therefore Hard Work=/= Reward. It doesn't motivate hard workers to work hard and it doesn't motivate slackers to get up and make something of themselves. Socialism breeds Mediocrity and discourages Quality. You see? [/spoiler]

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            • I promise to read all of it. But let me assure you that a sweeper bot campaign would not be unsuccessful.

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            • 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". You can't say RNG = Hard work, that just isn't true.

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            • Ouch.......you are the young people. I'm quite surprised to see the upvotes. Quite telling i suppose. Well, i won't let facts get in the way of a good time haha, but it was a lot of work so kudos, OP.

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            • Sounds like a commie to me

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              • "Widely popular policies"? Yeah, no.

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              • Muted due to having the economic sense of a modern Republican, i.e. an idiot.

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