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Exactly. Thinking wealth is a zero-sum game is short sighted. Yes, there are many rich people who are rich directly or indirectly thanks to wealth redistributi
by henvic 3y ago
Exactly. Thinking wealth is a zero-sum game is short sighted.
Yes, there are many rich people who are rich directly or indirectly thanks to wealth redistribution: the state is very powerful in taking wealth using force (violence) from the poor and giving it to some wealth people.
But the natural course of how people become wealth is by generating wealth in a way that is positive for everyone!
There's nothing wrong with being wealthy. Poverty is a real problem, and the states are partly responsible for driving people to misery through wars, and the evils of forcing their own fiat currency with inflation and taxation.
- mrguyorama 3y agoSo when the potato chips at my local supermarket have gone from $2 to $6 in a couple years, they got 3X tastier/more good, right? The potatoes in the produce section are still the same price, and my friends up north who literally grow those potatoes aren't making a dime more, so the money is all going to the chip makers. Are lays potato chips suddenly curing cancer or something? Or when netflix raises it's price, they definitely have way more content and more reliable distribution right? Tell me again how a company making more profit while everyone else suffers is magically not zero sum