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Yawnz13 5 points ago +6 / -1

Yeah man, it's not like "the worker" wouldn't exist or anything without these businesses. Jobs just spring up out of the aether.

Step 1: Business is created with seed money from owner, either from their own pockets or loans.

Step 2: Business hires workers to increase productivity.

Step 3: Business continues to exist due to sale of products produced by workers.

Step 4: Workers are paid out of revenue generated by sale of these products.

Now, if you simply steal the products a business makes, how do the workers get paid? Take from the corporate side? Steal from someone else because you were stolen from? That isn't going to last more than a few paychecks.

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bitterbut_true 1 point ago +1 / -0

Y got the context of my statement muddled. I was replying to an op who implied that 'the poor' could collect income (i.e taxes) from 'the worker' by looting the business they work for. I disagree. They're not 'collecting' (i.e stealing) from the worker; but the 'work providers'. Anyway its Alice-in-Wonderland--the State decides it won't provide welfare; just let 'the poor' rob other people by de-criminalizing it. If enough of that occurs, of course, there won't be any 'businesses' or 'workers' (i.e employees)

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