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[–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

We must ensure nobody gets absolute power, because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You keep wealth distributed evenly among a population and have their needs met and these things don't happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Well, not all the way evenly. It's fine to have relatively rich and poor. Money should be a measure of what your society owes you, and society owes my doctor more than it owes my deadbeat... whatever, who just doesn't want to get a job.

    Make that doctor as many lattes and avocado toasts as he wants.

    Everyone working 40 hours a week should be able to ask their neighbors for things like "take my garbage from the curb to the dump" or "educate my kids" or "make me a sandwich". That is the concept of money at its core.

    We'll say the going rate for a skilled worker is $100k a year with a working lifetime of ~40 years, about $4m in total. Ain't nobody out there that deserves the lifetime's work of 250 people working solely for them, 40 hours a week, ~44 weeks a year. (That's about a billion dollars.) Yeah, maybe you can control that many people or more if you're working towards a common purpose and providing value for others, but that would be a billion dollars in gross income that's redistributed, not net profit for one person.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I mean, I don't have the energy to discuss specifics, but I think at a very base level we agree here that people should contribute to society as much as they can and get what they need and that nobody should just get passive income.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Well, not all the way evenly. It’s fine to have relatively rich and poor. Money should be a measure of what your society owes you, and society owes my doctor more than it owes my deadbeat… whatever, who just doesn’t want to get a job.

    your job does not give you dignity or worth.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it absolutely can. Yes, every person has base dignity and worth, but I absolutely have more respect for people who make a living saving lives, for instance. I respect doctors, nurses, firemen, scientists, architects, construction workers, mailmen.

    If you do absolutely nothing and provide nothing back to society, then yes, I have more respect for those other people who do serve their fellow man, generally.

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