Correct, once the labor pool is expanded to include those people, the value of the work is re-adjusted, since value is relative to all options available. I did mention income being a rough approximation, implicitly…
Why do you frame work as a reward and not a chore? Yes, contributers are better than freeloaders. By your logic, a dog walker is equivalent to a doctor, and given only enough resources to save one of their lives, we…
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That's an insightful way to think about it. I just realized we're operating under large scale Feudalism? Poor people work 1 day/week (or so inefficiently that it should be considered 1 day/week), and therefore should be…
Yes, those are choices.
Continued: Poor person: "I don't buy from McDonalds because it's unfair their prices as a percentage of income are higher for me than for rich people." That's how retarded it sounds to me hearing people talk about taxes…
Focusing on the percent of income paid in taxes is a trick to convince poor people to vote to raise taxes. Income = Rough approximation of your contribution to society. Income Taxes = Penalty for contributing, but also…
Correct, once the labor pool is expanded to include those people, the value of the work is re-adjusted, since value is relative to all options available. I did mention income being a rough approximation, implicitly…
Why do you frame work as a reward and not a chore? Yes, contributers are better than freeloaders. By your logic, a dog walker is equivalent to a doctor, and given only enough resources to save one of their lives, we…
?woH
That's an insightful way to think about it. I just realized we're operating under large scale Feudalism? Poor people work 1 day/week (or so inefficiently that it should be considered 1 day/week), and therefore should be…
Yes, those are choices.
Continued: Poor person: "I don't buy from McDonalds because it's unfair their prices as a percentage of income are higher for me than for rich people." That's how retarded it sounds to me hearing people talk about taxes…
Focusing on the percent of income paid in taxes is a trick to convince poor people to vote to raise taxes. Income = Rough approximation of your contribution to society. Income Taxes = Penalty for contributing, but also…