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> you're not allowed to take the rich people's money Actually you're not allowed to take anybody's money, and that's not economics, that's law as practiced sin
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> you're not allowed to take the rich people's money
Actually you're not allowed to take anybody's money, and that's not economics, that's law as practiced since the dawn of civilization.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThis is factually not true. Slavery, for example, has been legal in various forms. You may quibble that we're not taking their money, just chaining them up and lashing them with whips to force them to earn money that we keep without them ever seeing it, and occasionally selling their children to other slavers for more money, but I feel even expressing that quibble is an important indicator. Somehow "you can't take peoples money" got enshrined in law more concretely than "you can't own slaves/serfs/peasants". It's almost like it was the people with money, and not the slaves/peasants/serfs that were writing the laws.