If no one deserves anything, that includes people who already have money. Why not tax every billionaire at 1500% and give that money to other people? Stardust doesn’t become important just because it forms the structure of a billionaire.
But why stop there? Why have government at all? Why have law enforcement? Why not just do whatever we want to, to whomever we want to? Stardust doesn’t become important just because it forms the structure of a legal code.
Nihilism requires anarchy to be logically consistent. And if nothing means anything, that includes your property and personal rights.
The fact is that, in order to operate in this world at all, we have to value some things, and at least most of the people have to agree on most of the things we’re going to value. On a basic level, that’s how complex life has always functioned. On a more esoteric level, that’s our species’ evolutionary advantage: society.
Right now, the West has decided that we’re going to value capital (and, in some cases, even just the idea of capitalism). Some people are saying, no, we should value people over and above capital; they’re facing a fight, not because nothing matters, but because the people in control have decided that only their financial enrichment matters.
Dangerous precedent to build your philosophy on.
If no one deserves anything, that includes people who already have money. Why not tax every billionaire at 1500% and give that money to other people? Stardust doesn’t become important just because it forms the structure of a billionaire.
But why stop there? Why have government at all? Why have law enforcement? Why not just do whatever we want to, to whomever we want to? Stardust doesn’t become important just because it forms the structure of a legal code.
Nihilism requires anarchy to be logically consistent. And if nothing means anything, that includes your property and personal rights. The fact is that, in order to operate in this world at all, we have to value some things, and at least most of the people have to agree on most of the things we’re going to value. On a basic level, that’s how complex life has always functioned. On a more esoteric level, that’s our species’ evolutionary advantage: society.
Right now, the West has decided that we’re going to value capital (and, in some cases, even just the idea of capitalism). Some people are saying, no, we should value people over and above capital; they’re facing a fight, not because nothing matters, but because the people in control have decided that only their financial enrichment matters.