A central principle of economics is that you can only earn money by spending 1) time (i.e. one's labour, which is limited by hours in the day); and 2) money (i.e. one's investment, which is limited only by the growth potential financial instrument employed). This means that only those with access to expendable capital can employ both methods. Worse yet, a lack of capital gains tax mean: 1) they are not required to contribute a share of wealth earned by capital means, despite their vastly improved means to accumulate wealth; and 2) this method of earning (available only to those with excess means) is unlimited in its ability to create wealth and thereby increase the gap in access to resources. It ultimately entitles one class of people to access to a better standard of living akin to valuing them more highly as humans than others
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