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Is income inequality necessarily unjust? This point "it's trivial to identify who benefits and suffers from past transactions", is asserting that weal...
May 26, 2020 at 14:41
Your enquiry has led to a better formulation of the regime: "Assume that all money has and will be justly earned. How is my reasoning about taxation a...
May 24, 2020 at 17:12
Assume the original money maker acquired the money justly. Then I suggest the money as a record of a man's work output stands regardless of who has th...
May 24, 2020 at 07:15
I agree, in practice some income is better thought of as "unearned". To turn the issue back to you, what features must a society have in order for "mo...
May 24, 2020 at 06:56
The inherited money is the donor's record. I think this amendment preserves the regime, "Money is a record of men's willingness to trade for another m...
May 24, 2020 at 06:31
The employee and firm are independent entities each having their own goals. The individual agrees to work if and only if he believes the arrangement i...
May 24, 2020 at 06:20
It's the other way around. The company has become part of the individual's tangent. The individual determines his goals and the most efficient means f...
May 24, 2020 at 04:02
I take this as your proposition: "In business, individuals submit to the greater good of the company." Without a definition for "submit" that proposit...
May 24, 2020 at 03:24