“What causes poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, What causes prosperity?” - Per Byland

Wealth is acquired through work by creating, building and innovating, not through confiscation from those who create, build and innovate. A society that celebrates confiscation over creation is doomed.

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Yes.

And a corollary would be, there are no rights that allow you to take from someone else what they worked for. All rights do not cost others anything. If someone else has to pay for what you want, it isn't a right. It is theft.