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by random28345 3341 days ago
> Lower the taxes and don't let government get their hands on it at any stage of the process. This smacks again of redistribution of wealth and I'm totally against this.

Brilliant! I'm sure that startups will flourish in an environment where there is no functioning government. What I don't understand is why the movie Mad Max didn't show a vibrant startup community with flowing rivers of lattes and soylent, rather than the human misery that comes from the absence of rule of law, retirement, and health care.

Serious question, do you really want to live in a world devoid of "redistribution of wealth", where life is cheap, the working class is treated like disposable trash, and treatable illnesses are a death sentence?

What would it take to convince you that the wealthy contributing some of their riches back to society is the foundation for a functioning civilization?
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winstonewert 3341 days ago
How about we start by not attacking straw men?

Objecting to the redistribution of wealth isn't the same as trying to do away with the rule of law.

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random28345 3341 days ago
> Objecting to the redistribution of wealth isn't the same as trying to do away with the rule of law.

The rule of law depends on the redistribution of wealth. Courts, public defenders, police, regulators, juries don't magically appear out of nowhere.

Therefore, it seems obvious that if you are absolutely opposed to the redistribution of wealth, you are therefore absolutely opposed to what most people would consider civilization: rule of law, education, public services, etc.

Do you agree that being part of a functional modern western civilization is impossible without the redistribution of wealth (paying taxes, serving on juries)?

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winstonewert 3341 days ago
That's not what people mean when they talk about the redistribution of wealth.

The redistribution of wealth refers specifically to taking from those that have more and giving it those who have less. In particular, having everyone pay to maintain the rule of law is most certainly not what most people mean by redistribution of wealth.

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