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Much of your earning power is the result of work done by others, many of whom are long since dead. If you earn a living by using a computer for any purpose, y

Much of your earning power is the result of work done by others, many of whom are long since dead. If you earn a living by using a computer for any purpose, you've taken advantage of work done by Michael Faraday, George Boole, John Backus, Tim Berners-Lee, and others too numerous to mention. Even if you didn't use one, you still benefit from being able to read and write, for example. So some of your earning power really belongs to the community, and should be divided equally among the community, including yourself.

reddytowns 10y ago
It doesn't logically follow that because we use the inventions of others, that anyone who decides to sit on a couch all day, and stick their hand out is deserving of money of those that choose to work. Modern day liberalism has become a religion, where "what should happen" and what's "morally right", and who has "advantage over others" replaces "God's commandments", "sin", and even in the case of affirmative action, "original sin" (being a white male, you are born having others more deserving than you). And just like any other religion, it's all just a bunch of horse shit.