Seeking Coder here. Looking to work on a project trying to eliminate need for middle men in our food. Farmers grow and produce food, sell through middle men and make less each year. Got a plan, could use help.
It is a murky area. As you say it is the right thing to do, but say the means are wrong makes one ask more questions. Why is it wrong to help a friend when you have power?
Because living by means of systematic theft is immoral and unsustainable.
How much money of yours is needed to be owned by someone else for it to be slavery? 10%? 90%? 100%? 50%?
Taxation is Constitutional.
That said, I prefer a sales tax over an income tax. Income can be hidden, but sales tax is often still paid by those who make money off the black market. I know that helps BC's economy
Capitalism is bad system because it has no built in rules to prevent exploitation which leads to massive wealth inequality which leads to corruption of society.
Tainter's law: diminishing return on invenstment in additional complexity. Any organization (eg companies) can only grow so large before collapsing.
Thank you. The writings of libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz influenced me to think in this way. Szasz believed that psychiatric coercion is medicalized terrorism.
Amazon makes it easier to get what we need, and helps humanity. It does it while making a profit. Most companies make our lives better, and make a profit doing it.
LOL. Go tell that to people who work there like slaves or all the small family shops Amazon has wiped out. You getting crap you actually don't need really fast is NOT helping humanity