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Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout by ChrisLomont on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:46AM (#28326588)
Is that moral failing related to jealously about how others choose to spend money that isn't theirs?
Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout by UncleMeat on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:15AM (#28326815)
Money is not gifted to people by God. It is allocated to people by systems that society chooses. The idea of the specific "rightful" ownership of money we have today is not universal throughout history and can change.
Re:Apple chief executive Tim Cook gets $750m payout by ChrisLomont on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:06PM (#28330321)
> It is allocated to people by systems that society chooses

Exactly. And history is pretty clear that nearly everyone is worse off when society decides how to spend money instead of letting owners decide how to spend money. It's why every first world economy has a massive dose of capitalism and a tiny dose of socialism in their GDP. And why a significant part of the worst economies of the world don't.

>The idea of the specific "rightful" ownership of money we have today is not universal throughout history

Yet the poor (and pretty much everybody else too) in most of the world, if not all, today are vastly richer than the poor of the past.... Maybe there's a reason the world has moved away from the economic systems of the past?