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> Give people money to replace what they're not making. Count yourself among those who do not understand the difference between money and wealth. What they're
by mariodiana 6y ago
> Give people money to replace what they're not making.
Count yourself among those who do not understand the difference between money and wealth. What they're "not making" isn't money; what they're not making are goods or services. That's the point you're attempting to respond to, and you've missed the point.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThey are making stuff and making money. The money is often just as or more important because it is necessary to buy other stuff, particularly when "essential" things are still operating and "non-essential" things are shut down, because the people doing "non-essential" things still need money in order to buy "essential" things.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoYou should read http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html, particularly "The Pie Fallacy". Here's an excerpt: > What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around.
- romwell 6y agoI see no problem in moving the wealth from those who have accumulated an obscene amount of it to those who need it to eat.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoAgain, you are entirely missing the point. I'm not sure how, we've explained this now like 4 different times. Money is not wealth. You can play whatever games you want with redistributing the money, but without the wealth you have nothing to eat.