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> Wealth represents owed labor That's the flawed assumption you're making. Wealth does not just come from labor. It largely comes from technology. Technology provides leverage. It's not uncommon that a single person today can do something that generates 10,000x the entertainment/utility/productivity/wealth any single person could have in the past. The average person today is far wealthier than the average person hund…
OK. That's not an assumption though. I explained the reasoning behind that claim. You didn't address it. > we can generate wealth much more easily today, thanks to technology This is a different kind of "wealth." I certainly didn't mean to say anything against higher productivity etc. I was saying that if someone has more wealth measured in dollars than everyone else in society, that person then has an effective powe…
> ordinary people have an obligation to pay rent, and otherwise buy resources from the previous generation of humans, who allocated nature before they were born; so they have an obligation to work for owners; and wealth takes the form of ownership of a share of the work done by them.
Yes this is true. We're all part of a vast, interconnected, capitalistic network ("the market") of who people who own/make useful things and then sell/rent/loan them to others in the network.
But here's what's important: (1) Even if you're rich, you have to spend money on things created by others in the market. (2) Anyone has the ability to become a seller of things in the market.
In other words, it's not about owners vs workers. Rather, it's about consumers and creators. The "and" is important, because everyone is a consumer, plus everyone has the ability to simultaneously be a creator. Being a consumer isn't a bad thing, and doesn't make you subject to rich parasites in any way that I can see. Additionally, the internet and technology are only making it easier to become a creator.