Isn't the dollar fake and gay? Isn't wealth necessarily invested in destroying us? Aren't all those portfolios made out of treason? Isn't it revolting to you to think that you will suffer deprivation and lack and grief so that systems will stay afloat for trust fund kids who won't ever know a moment of soul crushing, degrading economic desperation and insecurity?
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Your analogy matters if we assume that all laughter is at demonstrable suffering of other children who are controlled by the laughing kids so as to suffer more for more laughs
NO, my analogy matters because it does not matter how much someone else's wealth is. There is not a finite amount of wealth. Just like there is not a finite amount of laughter.
Someone having more wealth does not block you from having wealth. You are making a false connection between laughter (wealth) and suffering of others.
What I am talking about here is honest wealth. You are trying to connect dishonest wealth to what I am saying. Someone who creates honest wealth helps everyone. The only real way to create honest wealth is by making others wealthy in the process. When you do that those others are willing to help you reach you goal.
If someone creates a widget that everybody wants at a price he would like to get and at a price they are willing to pay he will get wealthy. If he charges too much and becomes greedy other people will step in and offer a similar widget at a price that the market would be willing to buy at.
I'd have this discussion in 1840 but after all gay