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Yes it does get annoying hearing them bitch about how the rich aren't paying enough when they contribute nothing though.
by pyronik 9y ago
Yes it does get annoying hearing them bitch about how the rich aren't paying enough when they contribute nothing though.
- lovich 9y agoIts the marginal utility of money. I'm about to pick numbers out of a hat for demonstration. If it takes 18k to live at a bare minimum each for everyone, then the guy making minimum wage and pulling home 20k a year and the guy pulling home 100k a year have a completely different calculus. That 2k surplus for the minimum wage worker could easily be killed by a single week of illness just between medical bills and not working. The guy bringing home 100k a year can survives problems that are magnitudes more expensive. This gets more egregious as income inequality scales. Its not like billionaires who are earning millions of times more than a janitor can eat millions of more burgers or need millions of more houses
- pyronik 9y agoI understand the marginal utility argument. That argument assumes there is any moral right to steal from one person and give to another in the first place. I disagree there is. This is an analogy NOT a comparison... but its like saying its ok take the heart of an old person to give to a child because they would get more use out of it. Yes, that's true, but its a non starter due to the deprivation of the rights of the old person.