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I certainly would if those thankyou notes were the only way normal people could secure food and shelter and the collection of a billion of them was contributing

I certainly would if those thankyou notes were the only way normal people could secure food and shelter and the collection of a billion of them was contributing to normal people being unable to obtain thankyou notes.

jstanley 3y ago
> the collection of a billion of them was contributing to normal people being unable to obtain thankyou notes. The reason poor people are poor is not that rich people are rich! The rich being rich and the poor being poor are 2 separate phenomena. It's not like there's some fixed pot of utility in the world, and the more one person has the less someone else has.
- skyyler 3y ago
  >It's not like there's some fixed pot of utility in the world, and the more one person has the less someone else has. There is quite literally a finite amount of resources on this planet. Land, gold, oxygen, lithium... These things are limited. The more land one person has, the less there is for others.
  - jstanley 3y ago
    That's true about land (that's why we should have a land value tax and abolish all other taxes).
  - aeternum 3y ago
    There are either ways to make more, or alternatives for all of those things. We've never run out of a resource despite the constant fear of it happening.