Re:Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right
by MarkMc on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:22AM
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I don't understand how you can have a truely private trade. If a trade depends on roads or schools or the internet or police, don't the people who provide those things have a right to share in the benefits of that trade?
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Re:Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right
by RobertoG on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @10:32AM
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No need to appeal to roads or police,
where is the money in that private deal coming from if not the state? And what it is the state if not and element (for best or worst) of how we, as a society, have chosen to organize?
Re:Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right
by aminok on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:20AM
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You can use private currency. No need to use government issued money. Yet tax laws make no distinction between trade involving government issued currency and trade involving wholly private currencies/properties. And you're making a fallacy of composition in claiming we as a society have decided something. What you're really arguing is that the majority has decided something and that they have a right to force their will on everyone.
Re:Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right
by RobertoG on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:50AM
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" the majority has decided something and that they have a right to force their will on everyone."
Well, it's not your proposal that we organize society following your favourite principles instead?