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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
Person A's behavior is exactly the same as Person B's; they don't produce a fucking thing. The only difference is the former won the lottery in terms of inheritance.
Person A produces a ton just by existing. The wealth the person's parents created is real, and the proceeds Person A possesses represent that real wealth. That real wealth is mostly being used as capital in financial markets to fund others' productive endeavors.
Person B* is diminishing the amount of real wealth in the economy by merely consuming (this reduces supply of resources) by using others' real wealth that would otherwise be more productive. Furthermore, a society in which the Person A situation is discouraged and the Person B situation is encouraged is one that significantly incentivizes not developing wealth and not being productive.
*More specifically, the diminishing of real wealth is coming from the government policy that takes from Persons A-Z and redistributes in an unproductive manner.
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