10-04-2005, 05:07 AM
Any1,Oct 4 2005, 10:27 AM Wrote:He obviously can do whatever he wants with his money. However, I wonder if he considers the inequity of satisfying such a far-fetched dream for himself, when there are so many over all this country (US) and the world that lack even the basic necessities of life?I think how someone else spends their money is none of my business (however, how politicians spend *my* tax dollar certainly is ;) ) unless the purchase has some negative impact on me (e.g. the neighbor making their house three stories and so blocking out my sun, or global citizens purchasing SUVs increasing my chance of dying of skin cancer :P )
What do you think?
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I think that Capitalism requires people to be free to spend their money on (legal) things like this. It is part of the incentive to optimise personal output. Communism is where you donate all your money to others (via the government)... ask Ashok how well that has turned out in practice :P
I think Ghostiger raised a good point about the economics of spending meaning that the money filters to different areas... one man gets a space trip -> 100 space engineers get to buy new cars -> 10000 car salesmen get to buy food to feed their family -> 1^X farmers get money to extend their house
... or whatever.