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I hope that people will do something more constructive with the resources they extract from others labor, that's all. Drugs and prostitution serve the purpose of transient sensory gratification, and do not build anything.

Of course, money is not real and it does not disappear when it is spent. What is real is the resources and labor extracted at the expense of others to provide and procure these services. Most likely, my examples could be improved and aren't worth discussing in particular.

I'm taking exception to lavish spending and resource allotment which does not even make the person spending the money happy, yet is done at the expense of others who have real needs that are going unmet. I do think an act like spending $200,000 on a bottle of wine at a restaurant just for the heck of it, while the purchaser might have hundreds of employees for whom 200k would be a life changing relief, can be seen as sociopathic.



the resources they extract from others labor

The meme that capitalism is exploitation should be considered harmful. In market societies, money is (in general) not forcibly extracted and trade certainly doesn't happen (in general) at the expense of others.


I didn't say 'forcibly'. One way or the other, it's about others labor and assets being concentrated in the hands of people who squander them.


I understand where you're coming from. It seems unfair. Don't worry though, plenty of cocaine and prostitutes are left for the proletariat. In fact I think average consumption is about even down the ladder. We no longer have to make do with religion.


I don't really want those, I want the yacht!


Greedy rat bastard coal miner. Give ya a finger and you want the hand. Take the whoores & blow or you'll get Jesus. Makes no difference to me.

Anyway, what good is a yacht without them.


Would it be any better if it was the result if their own labour rather than 'extracted from others'?

You are getting into an argument about how people should use the resources that they have been rewarded with. This is difficult, because reducing the rewards punish the responsible, and conditional rewards are difficult to implement if the sources of that reward are heterogeneous or disorganized, such as the consumers of mass-produced goods.

Not to say it can't be done, but it's not as simple as sprinkling magic social responsibility dust onto capitalism.


It is the fruits of their own labor. I agree this is a very large topic, and it's not really possible to discuss it here without spending all day composing.

It's more about personal responsibility and ethics than an economic system.




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