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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by optimuspaul on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @02:37PM (#12491051)
at some point the level becomes obscene. that level may be obscenely high for you, but I assure you it is much lower for those that are poor.
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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by DigitalJack on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:12PM (#12492286)
What does the morality of my bank account have to do with yours? Why does a bank account have morality?
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Re:Edward Snowden makes 'moral' case for presidential pardon by loup-vaillant on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @05:44PM (#12492526)
Big fat bank accounts let you control the action of other people: you buy some goodie or some service, someone works to provide it to you.

There is a point where having so much control over other people's lives can be considered a problem.

Now maybe it wouldn't be so bad if your own hard work indeed did produced that much value the world. But that's moot: virtually nobody gets rich by working β€”in practice, they got there by having other people work for them. That is, they accumulate the power of controlling other people's lives by controlling other people's lives in the first place.

Anarcho-capitalism is such an oxymoron.

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