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PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:08 am
 


It often seems to me that for some on the Canadian left, there is no such thing as "earning" wealth. One either acquires wealth through "just" means (i.e. government redistribution) or "unjust" means (any other way).

In this worldview, making money through competitive commerce is just as much "luck" as being born into a wealthy family or winning the lottery, and the beneficiary of the windfall has no more or less of a moral claim to it by virtue of how much (or little) effort or thought he put into obtaining it. He's not its rightful recipient. He's just the closest to where it landed.

It should be of little surprise that those wealthy people whose politics lean left tend to have inherited their wealth. They feel on some level guilty for their good fortune, but lack the understanding of what it takes to acquire wealth when starting from a less privileged status.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:46 am
 


What defines "wealth"? A kid and his chainsaw in Ft. Mac earning more than 100K a year has less disposable income than a pensioner living government cheq to cheque in Nova Scotia as one example.

Are we talking accumulative assets vs expenses? Money in the bank? Current earnings?





PostPosted: Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:04 am
 


Individualist Individualist:
It often seems to me that for some on the Canadian left, there is no such thing as "earning" wealth. One either acquires wealth through "just" means (i.e. government redistribution) or "unjust" means (any other way).

In this worldview, making money through competitive commerce is just as much "luck" as being born into a wealthy family or winning the lottery, and the beneficiary of the windfall has no more or less of a moral claim to it by virtue of how much (or little) effort or thought he put into obtaining it. He's not its rightful recipient. He's just the closest to where it landed.

It should be of little surprise that those wealthy people whose politics lean left tend to have inherited their wealth. They feel on some level guilty for their good fortune, but lack the understanding of what it takes to acquire wealth when starting from a less privileged status.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:21 pm
 


grainfedprairieboy grainfedprairieboy:
What defines "wealth"? A kid and his chainsaw in Ft. Mac earning more than 100K a year has less disposable income than a pensioner living government cheq to cheque in Nova Scotia as one example.

Are we talking accumulative assets vs expenses? Money in the bank? Current earnings?


Wealth , real wealth , has nothing to do with money, its using what money you do have to make a meaningful life foryourself


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