Dear Progressive

11Mar2010
You must hate me.

I fight redistribution every chance I get, and encourage others to do the same. I'm just "too selfish". I mean it's only money, right?

It is only money.

But what a capitalist argues against is not the redistribution of the currency itself, which would indeed be ironic, for it no longer has intrinsic value.

The capitalist argues against redistribution of the value the currency represents; i.e. the of the labor traded for said currency. When the state sets about a program of redistribution, in a very real sense it redistributes a portion of that individual's bodily labor. The work of his hands that are properly his.

In doing so, the state has coerced him to work not for his own betterment, but that of another. Working for the betterment of another, against one's will, without promise or delivery of equitable compensation? That's very nearly the definition of slavery.

To the extent that the state redistributes from one individual to another as a percentage of his "wealth", for that portion of his days, that individual toils in slavery.

Which is my point precisely.

Are you so concerned with equality that you would rather be equal in slavery, than unequal in freedom?