One man makes $30k a year and another make $300k a year. Does that mean that the man who makes $300k a year is contributing 10 times as much as the one who is making $30k a year?
It is a great philosophical point with many sides to it.
So one man is disabled does that mean that he contributes nothing? The man who makes $30k a year might say that. But what does the man who makes $300k a year think of him? That comparatively to him he makes no meaningful contribution either?
Someone who believes in fascism doesn't care if a self made billionaire never had to pay any taxes?
So the man who makes nothing asks the question, "If the billionaire didn't pay any taxes what did he contribute?"
Did the man who made a billion dollars really create employment or did he control employment? Was he taught to believe that his purpose in life was to control other people?
Who would be happy working for or with the billionaire who views your contribution as being so negligible that it is meaningless?
And what about urban sprawl? Creating skyscrapers that aren't completely occupied and never will be? Why don't they have full occupancy? Because those who work in them can't stand to work with each other; and want to work from home?
And getting off topic. Where does all the drug money go? Somebody in our nation has to be being paid off to look away while it is going on?
Is drug money laundered through real estate? For example does a slum lord or perhaps someone that owns a fancy skyscraper book revenue from drug sales as having come from the rent paid for apartments that are really empty? What about Hotels? Do some operate in this fashion?
Okay let's add the business of Prostitution to the organized crime analysis. Is money from prostitution laundered through real estate in the same way I asserted? The owner of the real estate is booking revenue from vacant apartments as if they are being rented but that money is really coming from prostitution activity? What about health clubs and gyms?
Now lets drop the veil of difference here. Does it really matter if the apartment is vacant at all? All that really matters is that it is being rented to a drug dealer or a prostitute or a pimp. That person renting the building can be said to be a partner in crime? Sure and legally, they can snake out of it, if attempted to be prosecuted for racketeering. And we need a lot better racketeering laws to bring back apple pie America. But how did they get to be a renter in the first place? They might have said, "I got a lot of money coming in from the good stuff, candy and skirt?"
What about a bank who makes a mortgage loan to a drug king or pimp? Okay now you are just starting to see the scope of the problem.
And the reason we don't have the death penalty is because it doesn't meet an odd sense of religious food standard?
© 2023 Thomas Murphy
Ps. So there is a phrase that popped up in my mind? "If you can't eat it don't kill it?" Some things you can't eat and don't want to eat and would never eat should be killed!
Why? Because it is highly likely to devour you if you don't!
Scratch all that.
The reason we don't have the death penalty is because organized crime couldn't exist with it.
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