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Alice grows an apple and sells it to Bob for a dollar. Alice now has a dollar more because she gave her labor and services and the dollar is the value of these
by pandaman 3y ago
Alice grows an apple and sells it to Bob for a dollar. Alice now has a dollar more because she gave her labor and services and the dollar is the value of these given. Bob took Alice's labor and services and Bob is now poorer a dollar because he has taken a dollar worth these. There is no moral judgment here and nothing is oxymoronic.
- lapcat 3y agoI have no desire for this giver/taker credo to be justified to me, so please don't bother. However, I would say that the example given is overly simplistic, almost childishly so, and ignores many critical details, such as how Alice acquired land and an apple tree, why Bob doesn't have land or an apple tree, how Bob got a dollar, etc. Not to mention that everyone needs to eat food, including Alice. (It's unlikely that Alice could survive on an all-apple diet.) Thus, if buying food makes you a "taker", then we're almost all takers. Certainly the wealthiest people in the world aren't farmers, and I'm pretty sure they don't grow their own food either.
- pandaman 3y agoIt's a simple explanation and not a justification. From your comment I figured you don't seem to understand but it appears you don't want to accept it, that's fine too.