Reply #4: because the empirical evidence is overwhelming that without equivalent transfers...

[enki23]

We would be joining third world in a generation or two. Capitalism trickles up. That's how the system is fucking *supposed* to work. Owners of things get to charge rent, and with that rent can buy up a greater percentage of the available things. The vast, vast majority of those who can sell nothing but their labor will never go beyond that. They don't get to charge rent. They don't own anything but their own time, and for the vanishingly fortunate few, some rapidly depreciating expertise. Most all of that is already obligated to their masters, with the usual caveat that they are ostensibly free to find a new master, if they're lucky, each iteration of which will now have an excuse to pay them less for their efforts. That's capitalism. All else is fucking commentary.