jcorgan on Nostr: Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is ...
Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is the result of the efforts of some other person or group of persons collaborating to produce it from where it did not exist before, and has been offered to you in trade for some other thing of value.
It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities.
To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you.
The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.
It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities.
To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you.
The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.