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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoYeah, scarcity is created artificially by people who don’t want to give their stuff for free to complete strangers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoor maybe by not taxing people who have made much more than they can consume (and deserve) in 10 lifetimes?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoAh, so it’s not that people should willingly give up their belongings. It’s that people with guns don’t forcefully seize their belongings from them.
This concept has a name. Artificial Scarcity.
Yeah, scarcity is created artificially by people who don’t want to give their stuff for free to complete strangers.
or maybe by not taxing people who have made much more than they can consume (and deserve) in 10 lifetimes?
Ah, so it’s not that people should willingly give up their belongings. It’s that people with guns don’t forcefully seize their belongings from them.