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No one owes to anyone (except in their own dreams). When people talk about "richest 1% should share with 99%" for the sake of, say, insurance, the reality is d
by oleganza 13y ago
No one owes to anyone (except in their own dreams).
When people talk about "richest 1% should share with 99%" for the sake of, say, insurance, the reality is different. Some other 1% (government) makes public believe that this 1% will fairly distribute extra wealth from the evil capitalists (initial 1%) to poor teachers and children.
There was never in the history of the world a good insurance scheme (yet) against government that is granted enormous violent power to "fairly distribute wealth". The government forms spontaneously and its adepts then use all possible means to teach masses how moral it is to "contribute" to the government under a gun point. Non-paying taxes = non-patriotism = jail. Etc.
Anyone who seriously advocates wealth extraction and re-distribution must first present to a voting public a way for it to insure that the proposal is executed as advertised. E.g. that the politician needs to lose enormous amount of personal wealth if he fails. Then we can talk about democracy seriously. Until then, it's just manipulation of uneducated public.