• EhList@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s called trade. If you “trade” with someone and you do not give them something in return for what they gave you then you either robbed them, swindled them or it was a gift. There is no economic system that does not work this way

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      1 year ago

      Everywhere around you, you can see work that need to be done, from streets that need to be fixed or land that could be cultivated, and all those work keep undone, because nobody up the ladder would get money from it.

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        Fixing the road is a service. People exchange goods and services in trade. This is the basis of every single economy regardless of philosophy.