Why the hell would it be perverse to want to get rich from something you created?
Do you have some kind of right to other people's creative output now? This greed after what other people have seems to be completely boundless.
Do you have some kind of right to other people's creative output now? This greed after what other people have seems to be completely boundless.
Yes, the devil is in the details. I just don't think it is unreasonable to be troubled by people wanting to be rich.
30% of the food eaten on the planet by people today is grown thanks to a German scientist who invented a way to extract fertilizer from air. He is directly responsible for the ability of billions of people to live and survive. What would be his fair compensation?
My point is that it isn't unreasonable to think it is troublesome to want to be rich.
Personally, I think there is some appropriate compromise between "people should take as much as they can for themselves, however much they can negotiate" and "people should never take more than the poorest person". So no, I don't think everyone should get the exact same share as everyone else, but I also don't think anyone should take a million times as much as the average person.