You Deserve Every Penny You Earn

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Where did anyone get the idea that the reason we work is to put money in other peoples pockets. We work to support ourselves and our families. We start businesses so that we can be successful and make enough money to survive and thrive. We deserve every penny that we make.

Work is an exchange of time for money. Period. It's a contract between parties, an agreement that entity A will give up some of their time and perform a task for entity B, and in return, A will receive compensation. Both A and B agreed before any work was completed what the task was (sometimes it’s specific and sometimes its general) and what the compensation will be.

This goes for the lowest paid burger flipper at a fast food chain, all the way up to the executive in the corner office. In an ideal world, without the states intervention, everyone gets every penny they agree to, when the job is done. A does something for B, B pays A for this thing.

When the state steps in and steals money from A and B (they usually steal money from both, but when they steal from A, then A has less money to buy things in order to provide profits for B, and B has less money to pay A, so no one wins) then gives the money to C, D and E, who did not agree to or participate in either the work done or the money made, then C, D and E have no incentive to work. A and B are both forced to support C, D and E.

Eventually, we run out of letters of the alphabet that want the entitlement, and A wont have enough left over to survive, and B won’t have enough money to survive either. So everyone suffers.

Except of course for the state, who skims a little off the top for “operations”. No one but the state wins: we the people always lose.

The only solution? Stop the state from stealing, then get rid of as much of it as you can.

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