Statism test:
Do you believe in basic human rights for all people, or do you believe in forcing the wealthy to fund things?
Is profit good or bad?
Discussion
Profit is good. Force is bad. That being said rights don’t exist, there is only what can be achieved through violence
If you believe force is bad then isn't the flip side of that coin the belief that people have a natural right to be free of said force?
If creation & productivity (leading to profitable exchange) are good then isn't the freedom to create & produce & exchange something that should be protected?
How is any if that different than a recognition of basic human rights?
What do you call it where every 50 years all debts get cancelled?
I suspect in a free market with decent property protections, impossible debts could naturally be cancelled/resolved based on individual circumstances via bankruptcies. Why would some arbitrary number of years be preferable to basic market functions?
I also think a sound monetary system will lead to far less debt creation & far more overcollateralization.
The problem is not that there is profit that turns into wealth while there will always be poverty.
The problem is that both wealthy and poor are unconscious. Which means laziness, time, entropy will kill the very thing that enabled the profit and consequent wealth in the first place.
Whose to blaim? It's a mental, a human condition. Without an expanded consciousness acting decisevly against our own impulses as a collective we are bound to repeat every lesson ad infinitum.
Yes