I wish people could just accept that any economic system involves a certain amount of stealing resources, you will always be able to frame it that way, and it's actually OK, that doesn't mean that it's good or bad
What you are actually describing is the redistribution of wealth. This is literally the definition of an economic system. We have money so that it can redistributed, that is it's only purpose. Capitalism "steals" money from the workers and gives it to the owners. Socialism "steals" money from the owners, abs gives it to egalitarian institutions. Any tax is "stealing" by this metric
If you don't like that then what you want is anarchy. And anarchy without a system of currency as well
You aren't actually opposed to the idea of taking resources from one group and giving it to another. You just call it theft when you think it's unfair. But that's not what you said and it would be a different conversation if it was. Taking resources away from one group and giving it to another is not enough by itself to decide how good a system is, and I wish people stopped pretending it was. It's an empty insult
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u/jancl0 9h ago
I wish people could just accept that any economic system involves a certain amount of stealing resources, you will always be able to frame it that way, and it's actually OK, that doesn't mean that it's good or bad
What you are actually describing is the redistribution of wealth. This is literally the definition of an economic system. We have money so that it can redistributed, that is it's only purpose. Capitalism "steals" money from the workers and gives it to the owners. Socialism "steals" money from the owners, abs gives it to egalitarian institutions. Any tax is "stealing" by this metric
If you don't like that then what you want is anarchy. And anarchy without a system of currency as well
You aren't actually opposed to the idea of taking resources from one group and giving it to another. You just call it theft when you think it's unfair. But that's not what you said and it would be a different conversation if it was. Taking resources away from one group and giving it to another is not enough by itself to decide how good a system is, and I wish people stopped pretending it was. It's an empty insult