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About "profit by ignoring them": - Is food profit? - When I'm hungry -is food profit? - When my family is hungry and I don't pay taxes in order to buy food t
by dmichulke 12y ago
About "profit by ignoring them":
- Is food profit?
- When I'm hungry -is food profit?
- When my family is hungry and I don't pay taxes in order to buy food today - is it profit?
- What if I don't pay taxes in order to send my kid to a school?
- What if I don't pay taxes in order to send my kid to a good school?
- What if I collect taxes from people who could otherwise send their kids to school?
There are a million possible definitions of profit and I bet that to each of them I can invent a scenario where it's simply unjust.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoAnd for each of your scenarios I can invent two in which your actions are just parasitic, in which you freeload on your community. It's easier to make a profit when you don't play by the same rules as everyone else. Also, if you run a startup, you're likely not struggling to feed your kids, so the moral picture you're painting does not apply.