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Implication: People who cannot create things that the world needs or values, should not have as much money. However, our society requires a modicum of money for
by lidHanteyk 7y ago
Implication: People who cannot create things that the world needs or values, should not have as much money. However, our society requires a modicum of money for survival. How do you square our failure to give people a modicum with the moral implications of being unable to produce value?
- zozbot234 7y agoThe sum of money that's genuinely "required for survival" is so low as to be almost insubstantial. People, even the extreme poor in fact, spend a lot of their discretionary income on what amounts to social inclusion, not bare survival. (But social inclusion is basically a collective good, that's far more cheaply delivered by altering social norms in a direction that boosts provision of social capital.)