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Some Important Principles
Greed is not good. Acquisition is not the same thing as greed.
Greed is not good. Possession is not the same thing as greed.
Envy is not good. An economic system which brings harm out of envy is a bad system. Communism is such a system. In communism, envy seeks to satisfy itself by empowering politicians to take money from others–and we all know what power does.
Greed is not good. An economic system which brings good out of greed is a good system. A free-market system is such a system. A free-market system maximizes everyone’s ability to decide what to do with their own money. So the best way for greed to seek to satisfy itself is by persuading people to give up their own money in return for doing something for them; in a free transaction, greed only gets what it wants by serving others.
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Or maybe a better commentary is that the action itself is fine, but you’re a dirty sinner on the inside (like me, no doubt).
(Just been reading this in a sermon from my homeboy Augustine, actually.)
@saintaugustine So…I ran across this very non coc compliant, very lefty, very non-ricochet YouTube thing which I thought seemed on topic, or at least intelligent and interesting. But be warned, it’s so non-ricochet as to be triggering. And a strange coincidence. ??
Any interest in giving a summary?
(I’m getting a lot of F-words in the first couple minutes. Is there anything else not rated G in here?)
Lots of ideas. No, can’t summarize with justice.
Well stated. I will add: Or acquiring enough money and power to see that the Greedsters themselves write the rules.
It could be argued that taxes pay for a service or services. When a person needs police officers, there is probably some gratitude for the taxes that provide this service. Likewise there is appreciation for airports, and air control towers, traffic lights, fire houses with the fire engines and fire personnel.
However I would agree with any here who state we most likely have 2/3 too many agencies and what not.
Yes.
In a non-free transaction.