Hopefully "Dave, Dave" will ignore this (maybe unwitting) trolling. There's many ways where those with surplus wealth can give it to those with insufficient we

Hopefully "Dave, Dave" will ignore this (maybe unwitting) trolling. There's many ways where those with surplus wealth can give it to those with insufficient wealth. Anyone here on HN can name multiple forms of investment/subsidy (such as venture capital, or the goverment subsidy which led to computers and the internet), and some may even be at work at more advanced forms of credit unions (such as Mike Leung's work on participatory credit unions). Furthermore, anyone who's skimmed the book's first chapter can see that this poster's original post was beyond uninformed, taking a point _Debt_ carefully discusses in the first few pages, and presents it as if the author never anticipated it. Same with the book's discussion of commercial reciprocity vs. mutual aid in chapter 5. David just helpfully posted here to point out the obvious...