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Who is starving, and why? I think if you can point to some starving children and make a public call, you would get lots of donations. If you are aware of such cases, please point t…

The value can be infinite. If you are about to die, you would give everything to prevent it - more than you have.

"Poverty rate" is usually defined of terms of earning less than the average income minus some %. It does not imply people actually being poor, in the way people imagine poverty (no…

The housing situation in London may be special, and I would bet you can find socialist laws behind it that make renting out properties nonviable (like rent controls and making it i…

In the latter case, the person who sold the castle can use the money to build a new castle.

Groceries salespeople are cheap because there are many people with the skills to do that job. The same does not go for brain surgery. And you can also sell groceries just fine when…

Well you have read the description of the poor in the 19th century, so I'd say it still doesn't compare. Nobody starves in the west, unless they have a serious mental illness. But …

They have their work power - don't banks actually love it when people can't pay off their debt? If your odds of making your investment back are so bad that the bank won't give you …

Children already start of pretty well in most parts of the world. Every child gets an education, for example. I think you would find that to make everything equal, you would have t…

You misunderstand the nature of money. Money means society owns something to the holder of the money. By not spending money, society is temporarily richer. Also, sorry, but I don't…

Why don't parents who work hard to give their children a good live deserve to do so? It is not their fault if other people have children while they are poor. Everybody should have …

You assume prices were merely driven by greedy landlords. That is of course untrue. Prices were driven up by the popularity of the city, with people seeking a place to rent outbidd…

So the only reason those homeless people don't get their houses is that nobody wants to give them to them? I rather doubt that number. More likely those empty houses are in places …

The OP was specifically a bout "lazy people", so your claim that they are not lazy does not make any sense at all. You can argue that there may be no actual lazy people, but that i…

The notion that children don't deserve the spoils of their parents is really crazy to me. Parents work so that they can give their children a better life. Heck, they even choose th…

Sustainable resources? Food production relies heavily on fossil fuels, for example. But I suspect the same people who make that claim you make also make the claim that it would be …

Since people can multiply, infinite amounts is a possible scenario. Also scarcity - think of "a kingdom for a horse". If there are 1000 apples and 1001 people, and everybody who do…

I was replying to an absolute statement, "every lazy person deserves x". My point is that there are probably more aspects to consider in general. Your claims that we have "more tha…

If they print money, they devalue the money people already have, so in the end again it is the people, not "government", who pay.

You can't arbitrarily set rent prices. You can only ask what people are also willing to pay. People are willing to pay because they have high paying jobs and want to live near to w…

Isn't that exactly what banks are for - so that you can get a loan? I would expect that you would qualify for a loan if you show evidence of your upcoming employment. Many companie…

You can't deny that in terms of Bayesian probability, the odds are higher for a homeless person to be mentally unhinged than for the average person. Simply because mental illness i…

Well arguably they are not really poor, compared to those cases of poverty in the 19th century.

I think people quickly tire of it when they have to take care of those lazy people directly. I'm not saying nothing should be done. Just that it is a fallacy to think the governmen…

Then as I suspected, it is just mumbo jumpo to allow people to make demands (I created the "value", so I deserve that thing). Again my question, what is the actual use for the conc…