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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gboulton, post: 1377170, member: 27043&quot;]Not any more in this country, no...&nbsp; (I&#039;d put a laughing smiley here, but that&#039;s too sad...and too close to accurate...)</p><p><br /></p><p>This is probably nothing more than one of those &quot;internet arguments&quot; that nobody ever wins...but i can&#039;t let this one go.&nbsp; :too-funny:</p><p><br /></p><p>Any man willing to do so has the <b>right</b> to <b>make</b> a profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I chose those words carefully and precisely, since the issue is one I think extremely important.</p><p><br /></p><p>What he doesn&#039;t have a right to is a profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>No...I didn&#039;t just say the same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>A man with the motivation to do so has every right in the world to go create wealth...to, quite literally, make money.&nbsp; When we give money its accurate definition...that of a storage unit for value...then a man absolutely has a right to create that through his work, effort, intelligence, wisdom, and action.</p><p><br /></p><p>He has a right to create value, and to offer it in exchange for something else of value, such as a house, or a car, or an apple, or..in this case...a pile of money.&nbsp; If his product and his smarts deserve it, then he shall amass more money than he parted with to create his product...he shall profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>His right to do so <b>should</b> be, in an ideal world, as sacrosanct as his right to life.&nbsp; How else, bluntly, can he continue to live?&nbsp; He may either make a profit, and exchange that profit for the resources he needs to survive...or he can die.</p><p><br /></p><p>He does not, however, have a right to profit.&nbsp; There is, as you said CG, no divide right to simply be handed profit.&nbsp; He must make the right decisions (grading a coin correctly), he must correctly anticipate the market, he must avoid counterfeits.&nbsp; He has no right to claim profit simply because he is in business, he must compete, and be better at it than others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect, CG, we&#039;re saying the same thing...but the distinction in wording matters, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will absolutely defend a man&#039;s <b>right</b> to create wealth through the power of his body and brain.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will also absolutely defend <b>your right</b> to make him deserve it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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