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I think a core realisation is how those money come around. Opposite to popular belief, it is not an individual that earn money, it is the society that awards m
by madsbuch 6y ago
I think a core realisation is how those money come around. Opposite to popular belief, it is not an individual that earn money, it is the society that awards money to an individual. We should think about how that works.
As a democracy, we are free to think up tax schemes to ensure engaging activities, hope, and meaning for that masses.
As a supporter of the democracy, I can not say that is happening when only a few govern the largest sums of wealth.
- throwawaysea 6y agoSociety doesn’t award money to individuals. Other individuals award money to individuals, through mutually beneficial exchange (wages, purchases, etc). Don’t make the mistake of giving society too much credit. Sure we need roads, power, and the basics to be able to build businesses at all. But society doesn’t do much more than that to fuel success - that is still largely built on the backs of a few intelligent, hardworking risk takers. Society is especially at its worst when they get in the way of individual freedoms and free market distribution of wealth. I think a good example of this is California, whose policies are bad for business, whose public services are terrible despite massive taxes, and whose overall economic size is more because of a lucky agglomeration in the Bay Area than because of intentional governmental policy.
- madsbuch 6y agoI think you are mixing up society with governance.