If you made a new invention tomorrow, lets call it the Glockenspiel-McGuffin 3000, it changes everyone's lives and you get so filthy rich that you have more worth than most countries GDP.
How eager would you be for the Gov't to rip that away to hand out to drug addicts, welfare sponges and single mothers of 7 children with different fathers?
Helping those in need is great, giving money to the unwashed masses is foul. Better to spend the money putting a bullet in their head than letting them leech off your blood like ticks on your body.
Not having the option to choose whether or not to use your money to help others denotes free will and effectively enslaves billionares to the worthless many.
Juan Collins
>How can you not see this as theft? Because I'm not an idealist, I'm a materialist. I put material reality and wellbeing over ideals, and if a farmer is hoarding their excess then intervention is needed. Though most farmers won't do this because they need to sell of their excess in order to make a living.
Ian Brooks
They are a policy success if you think about it. Most billionaires exist due to governments picking winners in markets.
Bentley Myers
So you are a thief and a murderer and a lair.
John Allen
As long as the masses aren't starving due to crop hoarding, cattle killing, and sabotage (i.e. what the kulaks did) I don't care what I'm called or if in some idealist philosophy I'm considered a "thief".
Jose Moore
so saying only labour produces value isn't really correct then is it? since without capital at risk there's no where enact labour to create value
Jonathan Rivera
Taking what you don't own is called theft.
Elijah Smith
>farmer hoarding excess
>work hard all day and all night farming while other farmers work moderately >take no days off, 7 days a week straight, bust my balls to grow and create as much material wealth as I can to be better off. >other farmers weren't as educated as I was on agriculture, I picked a more fertile area and also researched what makes each crop grow better and implement these methods. This wisdom is passed down by my family and I onto my sons >make more than any other farmer because I put more work into it as well as environmental factors that I planned on >have greater harvest than other farmers >Gov't comes and takes all of my produce to disperse to the people as I am told they need it more than I do. >starve and die >country starves and dies because I starved and died
Where have I heard this story before?
Jaxon Jones
Labor is the only producer of value. Enacting labor to create value without the capitalist class is possible under socialism, wherein the working class owns the means of production, distribution, and exchange. It's less possible under capitalism because most of the means of production, distribution, and exchange are monopolized by the capitalist class.
So no, it's not necessary. Here's an in-depth proof of concept on the labor theory of value (4 min):
