Walter E. Williams, “All It Takes is Guts”
ThoughtsLet me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? (1) Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you (2) - and why? (3)
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Yes. You presuppose we earned all that we kept. We didn’t. Acknowledging this doesn’t invalidate the effort we also contributed to our circumstances.
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Whatever it costs to nurture the society that made our earnings possible, which belongs to us.
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Because anything less is dishonest for those with ethics, and still counterproductive for the selfish.
There’s no such thing as a self-made person, unless we invent human cloning machines.
