loganquinn

Every "thing" is free because 'property is theft." When someone stakes a claim in a piece of land and fences it off they are stealing access to that land from everybody else. Every resource that is taken from the world to make something out of is taken away from others to enjoy. Every leaf a deer eats is a leaf others cannot eat. Just because someone bought property from a thief does not make it any less stolen. Go back far enough in time and all property was stolen and monopolized from the world.

The only value in anything is in the effort and time we take to transform that which we have taken, i.e. our labor. Money only has value as a took to trade our labor for the labor of others. We give government the power to coin/print money so that we have a standard to trade by. The more money government creates the more fluid the economy is. The way government circulate money into the economy is by buying goods and services like education, healthcare, housing and food, as well as defense and infrastructure.

The government does not need to tax anyone to create money, Taxes are about regulating the supply of currency and influencing behaviors. The only one's who profit from restricting the supply of money are those who trade it like a commodity, and influencing the behavior of others is simply punishing people for exercising their free will. This is why "taxation is theft."

Now some will say that government taxes people to create demand for the money they are printing. And they are correct, but that is just another way of saying they are influencing behavior. Once people understand the true value of a standardized currency that government provides then the need for taxation vanishes as there would be no need to force demand for money.

Eventually all labor will be automated and the only thing people will have to trade will be their creative endeavors. Everyone will have their own replicators to make whatever they need or want. They will trade programs to create new things with their replicators, eventually there will be vast free libraries in the cloud and people won't even need to trade for them and the creative folk will just create for the sake of creating and share their creations freely.

Oh, and education, healthcare, housing, and food are basic needs, not rights. I don't know who decided the word "needs" was less valuable than "rights" and decided mess up the concept of "rights." A right is a claim to action, it is a verb, not a thing. You have rights to do things, not to things. You have a right to continue your existence, not to your existence. You have a right to make decisions on how to continue your existence and you have a right to act on your decisions, collectively called free will. You have a right to control the product of your actions, from trading your labor to raising your children. And you have the right to defend your rights, the reason we create governments.

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