User:RD/9k/ Wealth gets rid of poverty (Q28,83)

Proposition

2883. Wealth gets rid of poverty / to each according to his work (Toryism) -> no. the limited nature of wealth creates wealth, so wealth doesn't even exist unless somebody doesn't have it. small capitalism relies on the lack of things for anybody to keep creating things. if creating wealth got rid of poverty we'd just all create a bit of stuff and then all capitalism everywhere would stop and we'd have an era of communism. it would definitely make things a lot easier for me but it's not how it works. it's more accurate to say creating wealth brings one person closer to life and a lot of people closer to death. say you live in 1930. every time Stalin's government sets a quota on a factory and the factory makes something, but somebody else is suffering and can hardly have it, there is wealth. that's how wealth works, and that's what it is. it isn't "hard work". it isn't stocks going up. it isn't one big stack of freedom you get after you have a lot of freedom and use it right. it isn't one big stack of race you earn after you get up and go to race all day — as much as that's oddly closer to true than a lot of Tory definitions. wealth is what brings temporary acceptance from others because you have out-survived them at something despite what prejudices they may have about you, but an acceptance which isn't permanent and could go away tomorrow the moment you aren't better than somebody else.
      I guess this goes on the surprisingly-long list of "Tory statements that could have come out of Stalin and horrified all Tories far more than when they said it themselves even though it means the same thing".

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2885. to each according to his work (Lenin) / (9k)

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