“@Ghostmaker: I admitted I'm most likely wrong. See above. Although that contradiction demonstrates the problems with capitalism. I have the right to make money. So does everybody else. I also have the right to not lose money. So does everybody else. Those rights are obviously contradictive, because if someone is making money, someone else is losing it. Money doesn't grow on trees.”
This argument is flawed. There is no right to make money under capitalism, nor a right not to lose money. There is the right to try to make money, and the right to try not to lose money, but no inherent right to succeed.
There is a right to pursue happiness, but no right to happiness.
There is a right to negative liberties- freedom to take actions (that don’t infringe on other people’s rights) but no right to positive liberties- a freedom to take consequences, products, goods.
So you see, the contradiction comes from your misunderstanding of rights under capitalism
Finally, don’t get so hung up over money. Sure, the total amount of money stays the same, or when it changes, it reduces the value of each unit of money to adjust, but you can’t eat money, you can’t sleep on money, you can’t drive to work in money, so ultimately, money is meaningless. What matters is the material wealth that can be acquired through working, and that does grow on trees.
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