You simply cannot have everyone assuming the position of the average - middle class. If we always reset everyone to the same average wealth... there would be no point in exchanging resources and services because you are never going to become wealthier for it. — Benj96
People can be unethical, not money — James Riley
So my question then would be is greed or sharing the more natural state of the human psyche? Or do we have equal capacity for both? — Benj96
So I guess you’re right even if we remove money from the equation and used a bartering system the same phenomenon of poverty and wealth emerges. — Benj96
So my question then would be is greed or sharing the more natural state of the human psyche? Or do we have equal capacity for both? — Benj96
I have my suspicions that it is when one has a taste of poverty and then becomes more affluent that they remember to give back. When one has never had to come even close to begging they cannot possibly sympathise. — Benj96
personal charity is, in my opinion, not a convincing foundation for a society. — Echarmion
money is, all said and done, a unique economic invention and it could be that there ethical issues exclusive to it. — TheMadFool
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