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Wealth is largely self-norming; while people tend to want more money, past some point (I think currently around $50k/year income in the US) it stops actually showing measurable effects on happiness.
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but rich people use their money to create jobs and new products
if you stole the wealth from them everyone will lose
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Here’s why: Because wealth is largely relative, and you are always relative primarily to yourself
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so you admit that obamamism/liberalism/socialism/communism or whatever you want to rebrand the term after every genocide and failure is all about envyness
a sane person(aka non-leftist) recognize that is better to live with 3$ in a world where everyone make 3000$ than with 2$ in a world where everyone make 1$
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Now pay it. Don’t lend them the money, just pay their rent. Get your mind used to the idea that this amount of money is good for a month’s reprieve from the perennial fear of being homeless with nowhere to go.
Can’t afford that? Go to a cash machine, withdraw whatever your daily limit is, and wander around buying scruffy-looking people lunch. Go to the grocery store and offer to buy the groceries of the first person you see there with a little kid. Look at the amounts involved. A friend of mine was sorta panicked recently over losing food stamps — worth a princely $16/month. That is not a typo.
Now go look at your bank account. Man, you are rich.
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people aren't doing that for a simple reason: BIG GOVERNMENT takes away from them half of their hard-earned money making them half-slaves
free people are more likely to help their neighbours
half-slaves not