We are able to at best apply a light touch to the tiller of the massive, complex ship into which we were born that we cannot claim any credit for making. Indeed, no one can.
This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t credit people for making good choices, but the idea that every penny we get we completely deserve is certainly not an established fact. It is at best an opinion, and a poorly justified one at that.
There is no morality involved. The assertion is only that's it's more _productive_ to distribute resources this way. Productivity might be a multiplier but can not be innately good itself.
We just don’t think about it and most of us just don’t care. I did care more when I was younger, but rose glasses tend to fall when you grow up. I now leaning towards capitalism when I will treat you as bad as the law allows me and extract as much money is possible as it is a fair game.
Welcome to corporate America.
What does any of that have to do with "corporate" America? When the Eastern Bloc still existed, people there also bought stuff for themselves when they could afford it, instead of buying more stuff for people starving in Africa, where goods would have been "more productive".
enjoy it while it lasts. there will be more bloodshed soon
Here is interesting read for you: Dictator’s handbook. Helped me to finally put the puzzle together.
> We just don’t think about it and most of us just don’t care. I did care more when I was younger, but rose glasses tend to fall when you grow up. I now leaning towards capitalism when I will treat you as bad as the law allows me and extract as much money is possible as it is a fair game.
> Welcome to corporate America.
Why is it that kids in Africa are going to die but not kids in the U.S.? How has such an incredible disparity in wealth come to be? Isn't the incentive structure of private capital ownership a pretty big part in this?
And yes, the structure has everything to do with it.
> And yes, the structure has everything to do with it.
So, why are those humans over there struggling while the humans over here are not? What lead to this? The humans in the U.S. used to be very poor. How did they grow so rich?
A government can certainly form policies and implement changes that attempt to distribute wealth more equitably. Its kinda 101 stuff.
That isn't new, is done all the time to varying degrees, and is many, many times removed from "communist utopia".
But the point is that any (however small) value for the person who earned it is justified, while whatever value it might have for other people is irrelevant, since it's not theirs.
In the same way you could argue that buying a car in the first world is immoral because buying it for someone else in the third world would provide them with higher value.
Earned wealth is not public wealth, unless we live in communist utopia where nobody earns or owns anything.