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by kennywinker 961 days ago
> someone presumably at some point contributed something to society

Even if that is true, which it’s not: in a shockingly high number of cases it is actually harming society that got people money. Even if it is true in a specific case - this premise implies that someone at one point contributing something to society entitles them to drain money from everybody else forever.

We all understand how we bear the cost of theft, but i don’t believe that theft is caused by bad people - it’s an inherent byproduct of a system that REQUIRES poverty to function.

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> Even if that is true, which it’s not

It is absolutely true for the vast majority of capital owners.

> entitles them to drain money from everybody else forever

They are not "draining money" by owning capital that produces goods that are then sold for money.