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T Lee Horne III

Male. Lives in Pensacola, Florida, United States. Is single.

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I retired when I turned 50 years old. I am working again at 72 years old.

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Chet McAteer · Envy Is the Only Socialist Resource That’s Truly Renewable – And They’re Drilling for It 24/7 It is, in my mind, an odd construction, the modern push for equality of outcome—rather tha... View MoreChet McAteer · Envy Is the Only Socialist Resource That’s Truly Renewable – And They’re Drilling for It 24/7 It is, in my mind, an odd construction, the modern push for equality of outcome—rather than mere equality of opportunity—quietly installs envy as the central organizing emotion of society. By promising that everyone must end up with roughly the same income, status, housing, and prestige regardless of talent, effort, risk-taking, or luck, the doctrine creates an endless, institutionalized comparison game. People are no longer judged by their own progress or by any objective standard; they are judged only against the most visible successes of others. When the promised sameness inevitably fails to appear—because human beings are not interchangeable widgets—the gap between expectation and reality is experienced not as a call to greater personal effort, but as a cosmic injustice. That feeling is envy, raw and scalding, now elevated from a private vice into a public virtue and a political right. Socialism has no rational cure for this envy because its entire project depends on feeding it. The moment you concede that no one may legitimately have more than anyone else unless that surplus is seized and redistributed, you guarantee that every yacht, every private jet, every beautiful house, and every lucrative career will be experienced by millions as a personal theft from themselves. The Socialist does not solve envy; he weaponizes it. He needs the doctor to resent the patient who can afford better care, the renter to resent the landlord who owns the building, the barista to resent the tech founder who buys the $7 latte without looking at the price. Without that burning sense of unfairness, the case for mass expropriation collapses. Envy is therefore not an unfortunate side effect of the system—it is the fuel. Worse still, Socialism has no off switch. Even after the revolution, after the factories are nationalized and the billionaires exiled, the new hierarchy of party officials, bureaucrats, and connected insiders immediately appears. The old envy simply transfers its target: now it rages against the commissar with the dacha, the apparatchik’s child at the better school, the general secretary’s mistress with the imported perfume. Every Socialist society in history has reproduced inequality within months; the only difference is that the new inequalities are unearned by market performance and undefended by law, making them even more galling. The envy intensifies, the purges begin, and the cycle repeats. Capitalism, for all its flaws, at least offers a partial antidote: the possibility that tomorrow you might be the one on top, or at least richer than you were yesterday. It channels ambition outward and upward. Socialism, by contrast, locks ambition in a cage of mutual resentment where the only relief is pulling others down. That is why the Socialist never runs out of villains; the moment one class of “exploiters” is liquidated, a new one must be discovered to keep the envy alive and the revolution justified. In the end, the Socialist project is doomed to drown in the very passion it cultivates. It mistakes a deadly sin for a theory of justice, then wonders why its societies disintegrate into suspicion, denunciation, and despair. Envy cannot be satisfied by any redistribution scheme man has ever devised, because its essence is not wanting what others have—it is wanting others not to have it... Until that emotional truth is faced, every new five-year plan, every new ministry of equity, every new “tax the rich” slogan will only pour gasoline on the fire it claims to extinguish. -cmcateer

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