Comment on Feelin free

• damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An asset appreciating in value does not deprive anyone else of money in their wallet.

  If you bought a rookie baseball card for $5, the player had a great year and now the card’s worth $100, your net worth increased by $95. But who is down $95 as a result of your card becoming more valuable?

  Nobody. Wealth is not zero sum.

  Also, wealth in the form of purchased investments into businesses that run within the economy, is literally the opposite of hoarding. If you buy things with your money, you’re not hoarding your money.

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  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but an asset appreciating in value off the back of another persons labor deprives the laborer of their fair share

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’re they not paid for their time in a consensual agreement?

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      • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not the gotcha you think it is. They get the shit end of the stick and if they ask for more they get shown the door and if people gang up and try to form a union the capitalist police state send goons to break it up because how dare the peoples ask for more money.

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