Re:Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under n...
by robertlagrant on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:34PM
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> Yeah sure, but my point was that the current capitalist-maximalist ideology is that rich people have "earned" their wealth by "hard work" and thus should not be required to share with the rest of society. And that is just dump
You'd have to cite this. The only people I see who are under the impression that labour is all it takes to make a business succeed are far left-wing, labour theory of value people.
> But society does not have a moral duty to enable obscene personal wealth, quite on the contrary.
You're half right. The criminal vagueness of "society" aside, no one has a moral duty to enable it. But there is no morality in disabling it, through theft or other means.
> European societies were not more complex or sophisticated at any given time than i.e. many in Africa or East Asia.
You seem to have misread. I wasn't saying or implying anything special about the complexity of European societies.
You'd have to cite this. The only people I see who are under the impression that labour is all it takes to make a business succeed are far left-wing, labour theory of value people.
> But society does not have a moral duty to enable obscene personal wealth, quite on the contrary.
You're half right. The criminal vagueness of "society" aside, no one has a moral duty to enable it. But there is no morality in disabling it, through theft or other means.
> European societies were not more complex or sophisticated at any given time than i.e. many in Africa or East Asia.
You seem to have misread. I wasn't saying or implying anything special about the complexity of European societies.