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One thing I find interesting about the current state of affairs is that the top 1% own more than 50% of the world's wealth. Which means that on average if a person just up and decided to not recognize money and property in the current system, they would in theory come up ahead. Now, this might sound technical and perhaps unrealistic, but if this level of wealth inequality continues, then one day enough people (i.e. a significant majority of the people in the world) will realize that they gain a lot just by shrugging off the chains put on them through social conventions, such as the current implementations of money. They can refuse to work and demand changes, and it seems like there wouldn't be any way to pacify that many people except by catering to them and allowing some sort of income equality. Just an interesting, theoretical thought.


Much of that wealth is held in things that inherently have value.

Homes will still have value. Cars. Gold. Ect. So you're saying to just steal it all from their owners? What a novel concept.


I might argue that "inherent" isn't as inherent as it really seems to be, in terms of "monetary value". (But I agree that there is value in the utility of the vehicle, and that leads me to the second point.)

Indeed in this sort of anarchy I might go so far as to argue that property should also be redistributed. While this sounds like stealing, if we might be a little crazy and "open-minded", we might think in the sense that some people always unfairly make more money, redistributing their property isn't as much "stealing" as "making fair". Of course, this is all in a crazy theoretical situation. :)


> we might think in the sense that some people always unfairly make more money

Some people also very fairly make more money and work their butts off for it, sacrificing along the way.

What do you say to those people?

I enjoy your hypotheticals tho.


You are not the first person to [observe this][0][1] :)

Ultimately, it's (only?) a collective action problem.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_of_the_world,_unite!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_Anarchy




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