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Topic	Jeff Bezos retires with 739,489 times the median American's wealth.
RchHomieQuanChi 07/06/21 11:04:45 AM #78:	legendary_zell posted... It's terrifying how little recognition you have for the dangers of allowing individuals to direct public health around the world or decide what anti-poverty measures are tried because they hoarded wealth like a dragon and decided to give some of it away for tax and reputation laundering purposes. It conflicts with individual freedom to have individuals with such disproportionate resources and economic power. It doesn't conflict with individual freedom to tax people more so that they don't have such power or to organize our economy so that more wealth goes to more people rather than a few at the top soaking up everything. What people often fail to realize is that there are individual freedoms that conflict with one another and that society's job is to determine which freedoms should take priority over others. For example, if you're telling someone that they're free to own slaves, you are now restricting other people's ability to be free individuals. This is why libertarian ideology is kind of a joke, because it operates off of the false premise that freedom in and of itself is an inherent moral good. --- I have nothing else to say <cite>RchHomieQuanChi posted [p:955797808] in Jeff Bezos... [t:79550175]...</cite> <quote>legendary_zell posted... </cite> <quote>It's terrifying how little recognition you have for the dangers of allowing individuals to direct public health around the world or decide what anti-poverty measures are tried because they hoarded wealth like a dragon and decided to give some of it away for tax and reputation laundering purposes. It conflicts with individual freedom to have individuals with such disproportionate resources and economic power. It doesn't conflict with individual freedom to tax people more so that they don't have such power or to organize our economy so that more wealth goes to more people rather than a few at the top soaking up everything.</quote> What people often fail to realize is that there are individual freedoms that conflict with one another and that society's job is to determine which freedoms should take priority over others. For example, if you're telling someone that they're free to own slaves, you are now restricting other people's ability to be free individuals. This is why libertarian ideology is kind of a joke, because it operates off of the false premise that freedom in and of itself is an inherent moral good. --- I have nothing else to say</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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