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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
because at some point reality sets in and says if you have a trillion dollars , someone is being exploited.
the human population has a finite amount of productivity . if we divide the resources produced equally and one person has X amount more than his share , then someone has X amount less.
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If 100 different people all start with $100 each, some will go to a bar and have couple of drinks, some will save it, some will use it to buy presents for their wives and children, some will invest it in the latest hot widget, some will use to start their own company,... everybody's different, we all have different goals and desires and we all spend our money differently.
If you come back 10 years later, some of those 100 people will be poor, some will still be doing what they were doing 10 years ago, some will have found love, some will have died of cancer, some will be really good at whatever it is they love doing, some will be eternal fuckups, some will have been robbed, some will have gambled and lost, some will have gambled and won, some will have invested wisely and still lost, others will have invested wisely and won, some will have worked hard, some will have pissed everything away the second they got it, some will have been lucky, some will have been in 6 different car accidents, some will have worked hard, some will have worked hard and smart... some will be poor, some will be millionaires...
I agree that most millionaires these days have become rich using unethical practices. By using aggression. However, there is nothing wrong with being rich while others are poor if your riches were earned through voluntary transactions.
Every human is free to do whatever he wants with his body and property as long as he doesn't cause damage to another human or his property.
So every human is free to use, sell, trade, abandon, give away his property. And every human will do this in a different way, because every human is different. And because every human is different, there will be differences between how people live their lives and whether or not they succeed in business.
To quote Rothbard:
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone propose equality as an ideal? Every year, scholars hold Conferences on Equality and call for greater equality, and no one challenges the basic tenet. But what justification can equality find in the nature of man? If each individual is unique, how else can he be made 'equal' to others than by destroying most of what is human in him and reducing human society to the mindless uniformity of the ant heap?
-Murray N. Rothbard