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The poor person has more choices because money was forced from a rich person to them (please keep in mind that I am not against this, it is likely the better sy
by thinkloop 8y ago
The poor person has more choices because money was forced from a rich person to them (please keep in mind that I am not against this, it is likely the better system). But these are extremely different kinds of freedom. If you have an example of how the poor person was forced to be poor it would be important here.
- Emma_Goldman 8y agoYou are working with a politically loaded conception of what 'force' is. The fact that we live under a mode of production in which one class of people have a monopoly over the means of production, and everyone else is destitute and must sell themselves to access the conditions of life, is not a natural state of things which does not require force, and from which any deviation is some kind of violation of nature.
- thinkloop 8y agoOk, let's say we start over and distribute all material equally - don't you think that over time some people will be more skilled and focused at gathering material and would end up with more than others? How do we counter that?
- Semaphor 8y agoThat's what I mean by different definitions of freedom
- eeZah7Ux 8y ago> If you have an example of how the poor person was forced to be poor it would be important here. You are really stretching the world "forced" here. Still, a poor person that wants to survive has to choose between paying for food and rent or being arrested and imprisoned for theft. Which then implies being forced to work and therefore not having time and money to get better education and so on...