Thread: One thing that the wealthy don't get...

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

Everyone in society is able to get money because society exists. And they repay society for the money they make through the work they put in to get it.

ok, so by that logic, because there are far more workers than there are employers, the workers obviously contribute a lot more in terms of work to society at large than the employers do. Thus, they should get more rewards.

Money is an abstract. It doesn't exist. A stack of dollar bills doesn't equal say a refrigerator. We "say" it does.

Coinage has been around a very long time. Even then the coins had value because the society using them "said" they had value.

Gold has value because we say it does. If gold were as abundant as sand would we assign it the same value.

So money doesn't really exist so you can't tax air so why tax at all.

Man created society, society did not create man. society is for man, man is not for society.

Originally Posted by Infrangible

Money is an abstract. It doesn't exist. A stack of dollar bills doesn't equal say a refrigerator. We "say" it does.

Coinage has been around a very long time. Even then the coins had value because the society using them "said" they had value.

Gold has value because we say it does. If gold were as abundant as sand would we assign it the same value.

So money doesn't really exist so you can't tax air so why tax at all.

but it does exist and it does have value precisely because so many people, aka society, says that it has value. So, in order for it to keeps its value, you need to keep society.

Originally Posted by Heel31ok

Man created society, society did not create man. society is for man, man is not for society.

man and society are inseparable.
The people i'm talking about did not make their millions by being an individual. They made their millions by providing a service to society, thus their privaleged position of wealth is part of a certain society.