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“often or always” is a cop out for people who can’t decidedly prove a point.
by bluedevil2k 6y ago
“often or always” is a cop out for people who can’t decidedly prove a point.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoLol, no. "Often or always" is used by people who realize the world is rarely black and white. It's weird, you're arguing against a point that no one else is making. Of course there are many billionaires whose individual intelligence, innate gifts, hard work and diligence were crucial to them earning their fortune. Just as obviously as there are many billionaires who earned their fortune through family, connections, graft, etc. (It's also pretty easily arguable the majority of the wealthy earned their money this way, given that for every "self-made" rich person there are usually loads more family members/connections who inherit or benefit from that wealth). But the larger point is that nobody makes their fortune in a vacuum - even all these "self-made" rich relied upon the structures of their society to enable their wealth accumulation, so it seems more than morally fair that that society has a claim to some of that wealth so the next generation can reap the same benefits. Just look at all the Internet billionaires, or billionaires who rely on GPS. Both the Internet and GPS were created by the government, and it seems fair to me that the government take a chunk of the wealth enabled by the enormous investments into those systems.
- dredmorbius 6y agoQuite this, yes.
- bluedevil2k 6y agoThey’ve aleady paid income tax to help pay for GPS!!