| How do people get a home and food? |
| Written by Ron Copis |
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How do people get a home and food? They work. They trade their time and effort for money. They produce things people want to buy. The people they work for sell what they produce. All that only works when those products get bought by other people, and that only happens when people at large have enough money to buy them. Everything and everybody is connected. Not by "humanity and compassion"-- but by the system of voluntary trade. I'm thinking of what happened when a celebrity athlete bought his mom a $75 million house. (He's a pro boxer, lives in Atlanta, so I heard a lot about this.) First off it's "his" money... to do with as he wishes... and without that principle held sacred it all falls down. Without the right to own and use one's own property freely no one works and tries to own things. Again, why should they? Second off it's not as if he gave that money to other rich guys and that house magically appeared. No, he traded it to a bunch of Joe Beercans who traded their time and labour for that money. I'm not going to do any complicated math here-- either he gave 75,000 workers $1000 each, or 750 workers $100,000 each, and more likely it landed somewhere in the middle, but a lot of people had jobs-- and "a home and food"-- for a good long ol' time. Never mind the people who got paid to maintain it after. I'm pretty sure his mom didn't mow the lawn or vacuum the pool, y'know? And for all this he got excoriated for "waste" and "excess" and "not giving back to the community"... ...leaving me sitting there dazed and amazed at all the retarded loudmouths who had NO IDEA how anything actually works in this life, didn't care who knew it, and somehow got listened to. That's just one example, and a good one, especially for me, as I cannot imagine trading any of my money to watch a guy get in a ring and slug the bejeez out of some other guy, or throw a ball around, for instance-- and yet, a lot of people do, and I see that as their biz and their choices. See, if that kind of thing can happen you have prosperity, and if it cannot, no one has any. The fastest way to kill prosperity for everyone is to punish wealth creation, and that's happening way too much in the form of taxes and regulation, in the name of giving everybody a home and food. That's just plain backwards, but it sure is popular.
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