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by aguyfromnb 2398 days ago
>paying others less than the value you produced is simply not valuing human life. The worst sort of theft.

And yet, both the planet and individual people are far wealthier today than when they were producing and receiving "full value" for their labour.

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That’s extremely loaded, and not true. I’ll unpack it all if someone is curious but in short your statement is only true if you define wealth in terms of faith-based fiat currency or define wealth as central bank issued scrip. There’s a reason credit is readily available. It’s a scheme that only works until it doesn’t, which is objective evidence that it makes for a very hollow definition of wealth.