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Isn't anything bad by definition when "too many" people do it?
by Trundle 9y ago
Isn't anything bad by definition when "too many" people do it?
- AstralStorm 9y agoThis is also morally suspect. You're putting extra load (taxes if anything) on people while you're not working. If you think you can repay this cost to society with volunteer work or otherwise, this might work.
- Trundle 9y agoHuh? You contribute with your assets. People get to use your stuff in exchange for giving you stuff.
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- mykull 9y agoLending isn't productive in and of itself. There is a nice gradient stretching from freeloading rent-seeker to visionary/socially responsible investor. Not seeing the difference and condemning the former is a problem. The difference is in how many other people get fucked along the way as the investor gets their return.
- tonyedgecombe 9y ago"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" I thought we had got past the idea of collectivism, it just doesn't work.
- mykull 9y agoLittle is more naive than the broad claim "collectivism doesn't work" because the USSR and other states tried some form of it and failed. Even if you are willing to massively oversimplify things and look at the cold war and all the real-politik business of the last century as a fair contest between the ideas of collectivism and capitalism, "which system wins in a war" is not exactly the same thing as "which system maximizes prosperity." Nor are we actually limited to picking between the two.
- lord_ring_11 9y agoHe already played more than other people will ever pay in taxes in their lifetime, he does not have obligation to society.