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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”

Whoah.. he's right.

>> No.16810822

>>16810811
>stay poor (and mad) faggots hahaha

>> No.16810879

>>16810811
Do people who inherit money earn it? Do people who have assets and investments earn that money? Do people who rent property earn money? etc.

Workers do not become rich. People who own things are rich. Rich people become rich because other people work hard, and are underpaid.

>> No.16810888

>>16810811
Because I can artificially establish monopoly and keep you working for me for peanuts while I seize your surplus for myself? Yes, what stops me from imposing literal slavery upon you and enjoying the fruits of your labour, how dare you to demand fair wage for picking up cotton?

>> No.16810902

>>16810879
>Do people who inherit money earn it? Do people who have assets and investments earn that money? Do people who rent property earn money? etc.
Yes

>> No.16810917

>>16810902
t. future labour camp prisoner

>> No.16810944

>>16810811
>I have never understood why its greed to want to keep slaves for yourself but not greed to take somebody else's slaves away.

>> No.16811000

>>16810917
t. motivating people to perform good according to the GOSPLAN by threatening with GULAG will work this time, I promise

>> No.16811022

>>16811000
Paul Cockshott proposed in 1992 an automated planned economy with floating prices and wider integration of market mechanism into the plan. Also, even in the USSR there were pay differentials, you earned more if you were a skilled worker. The incentive to work harder and smarter remain, no one proposes literal 90% tax on your shit.

>> No.16811024

>>16810811
only commies and cucks would think opposite

>> No.16811028

>>16810917
Cope

>> No.16811089

>>16811022
>Paul Cockshott proposed in 1992 an automated planned economy with floating prices and wider integration of market mechanism into the plan

Can you point to a source of this? I'm interested to read about it.

>> No.16811113

>>16811089
It's the most popular contemporary book on far left economics on /leftypol/. This is not welfare state proposal and not heavy intervention in the market a la China but full blown planned economy minus the usual downsides of planned economy. I was socdem myself and disliked communists before reading it, he solved most of my issues with planned economy. You can read it online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towards_a_New_Socialism
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

>> No.16811194

>>16810811
He keeps making Marxian cases for socialism.
Weird how rightwingers follow him around

>> No.16811264

>>16810879
>Do people who inherit money earn it?
No, but the person who made that money in the first place did. If someone accrues generational wealth and wants to pass it down to provide financial security for their descendants they should be able to.

>> No.16811267

>>16810822
based

>> No.16811278

>>16810917
the school of thought you subscribe to is defunt lmao copeee

>> No.16811279

Cause you didn't earn it you sat back and raked in the money from other peoples work in a company you inherited and supported by all kinds of government subsidies and then you go and fund think tanks and politicians who say a little bit of healthcare for other people socialism paid for by thieving taxes

>> No.16811281

>>16810902
Funny one-word response

>> No.16811287

>>16810811
Uncle Tom house negro.

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>>16811264
> If someone accrues generational wealth and wants to pass it down to provide financial security for their descendants they should be able to.

>> No.16811368

>>16810811
Wait, I thought this guy was supposed to be a capitalist. This is straight up Marxism.

>> No.16811593

>>16811346
Sounds like someone has a dad who never invested in even a basic index fund

>> No.16811608

>boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shill for capitalism on /lit/ on my own time

>> No.16811637

>>16811346
What did you mean by this?

>> No.16811664

>>16811637
Not all wealth is acquired the "just" way. Royal descendants could become rich by reinvesting whatever they inherit but the capital in the first place was acquired through threat of use of force. Think of modern corrupt politicians and political dynasties passing, of nepotism and people exploiting loopholes in the law and passing down the illegal wealth. How many 2nd and 3rd world dictators ended up settling in 1st world? Even one of the Putin's daughters lives in the Netherlands, sure it would be much harder for her to move there if she were a daughter of an ordinary Russian and not corrupt politician