And if you build something in order to trade it for something else, it's yours until you trade, and then the thing you traded it for is yours instead. No one else has a higher claim.
exactly right.
HOWEVER...it seems that we're all getting richer and richer.
although I didn't build the steel mill, or mine the ore, or work the metal, I bought the saw.
I can use it to cut wood (which I didn't fell the tree, mill the wood...etc)
There's a bunchaton of added wealth from legacy technology pretty much free for anyone to use...THAT's not theft.
And if you build something in order to trade it for something else, it's yours until you trade, and then the thing you traded it for is yours instead. No one else has a higher claim.
exactly right.
HOWEVER...it seems that we're all getting richer and richer.
although I didn't build the steel mill, or mine the ore, or work the metal, I bought the saw.
I can use it to cut wood (which I didn't fell the tree, mill the wood...etc)
There's a bunchaton of added wealth from legacy technology pretty much free for anyone to use...THAT's not theft.
That's the beauty of the decentralized free market with its division of labor.
yup..and the exponential advance of technology is making us ALL much richer.
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