My point is that you can’t have large numbers of people to steal from unless there’s already a lot of wealth in the system, so your criticism of the argument doesn’t work.
It’s a coincidental and not obviously correct consideration. There could be enough people on whole Earth, however they live. There certainly can be many people living under non-capitalistic system (China at the appropriate epoch). If there weren’t enough people, there could be if Earth was bigger.
It’s a coincidental and not obviously correct consideration. There could be enough people on whole Earth, however they live. There certainly can be many people living under non-capitalistic system (China at the appropriate epoch).
My point is that you can’t have large numbers of people to steal from unless there’s already a lot of wealth in the system, so your criticism of the argument doesn’t work.
It’s a coincidental and not obviously correct consideration. There could be enough people on whole Earth, however they live. There certainly can be many people living under non-capitalistic system (China at the appropriate epoch). If there weren’t enough people, there could be if Earth was bigger.
That’s a good point. I withdraw my argument.
If Earth was bigger, those additional people would be further away and thus unavailable to steal from.