Existential Comics doesn’t understand mutual exchange.

wow this is enlightening thanks for posting

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Do they have employees? With that logic, they're stealing from thier employees.

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I was wondering that too.

Edit: My guess is that rent and interest are way too abstract for some people. These people see the flow of money going one way but don’t understand the services traveling the other way.

Hence the title, “doesn’t understand mutual exchange.”

And taxes?

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And taxes?

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You should pay them. They should not.

With this thinking, we're back to the days of "Sure, occupy that space. Now you have to defend it."

The left hasn't got the guts to live their own philosophy. They couldn't survive in the world they THINK they want. Most exist in wealthy enclaves that are the opposite of everything they profess to believe.

I wonder how he feels about taxation

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I wonder how he feels about taxation

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guess he doesnt know that property taxes exist and are factored in the rent.

While I fundamentally disagree with him, rent and interest at least make sense. The idea is that people shouldn’t be able to make more capital simply because they have capital to begin with, without adding “work” to the system.

Profit is a nonsensical outlier in this construction, even if you bought into his premise.

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While I fundamentally disagree with him, rent and interest at least make sense. The idea is that people shouldn’t be able to make more capital simply because they have capital to begin with, without adding “work” to the system.

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The Labor Theory of Value is nonsense. If all of the labor needed to produce an item were reflected in an item’s price, it’s price would approach infinity. Labor is not how we assign value to an object.

Edit: There could very easily be 1,000,000 man-minutes (man-hour/60 minutes) of labor from all of the sources needed to make a single pencil. If we assume a minimum wage of $15 (what most of these people seem to want), that comes out to a single pencil worth $250,000.