> The fundamental right to other people's wealth is a very slippery slope.
All rights - everything a society does - require contributions from others. The premise that people somehow create wealth all by themselves and therefore have no obligation to share it is false.
Everyone's wealth depends on enormous contributions from everyone else, current and past. How did they build their app without the free K-12 education (and the education of your teachers), the roads, telecommunications, laws, protocols, police ... the economists whose centuries of work have provided the wealth your investors and customers have; the scientists who developed the theories; all the open source developers who gave away their work and set open statndards; the soldiers who work for paltry wages in the crappiest working conditions in the world, and some of whom died, to provide the security necessary for our economy and society to survive; the political leaders who generation after generation have built democracy and civil rights ... whoever developed English and the ones who developed C++ ...
All these people give us the opportunity to thrive. Do you think we would do so well without them? Are many startups happening in Somalia or Syria? Why should you or I be excluded from contributing and pulling our weight?
> All rights - everything a society does - require contributions from others.
The concept of positive and negative rights is pretty well defined. If you are going to assert that all 'rights' are positive rights you need to do a tad bit more explaining.
> The premise that people somehow create wealth all by themselves and therefore have no obligation to share it is false.
You are throwing up a straw man. No one asserts that wealth is created 'all by themselves' at least according to the definition you seem to be using. It is also difficult to know what 'obligation to share' means. Does that mean "obligated to pay my taxes" or does it mean "obligated to support arbitrary redistribution schemes and government policies" or does it mean something else?
All rights - everything a society does - require contributions from others. The premise that people somehow create wealth all by themselves and therefore have no obligation to share it is false.
Everyone's wealth depends on enormous contributions from everyone else, current and past. How did they build their app without the free K-12 education (and the education of your teachers), the roads, telecommunications, laws, protocols, police ... the economists whose centuries of work have provided the wealth your investors and customers have; the scientists who developed the theories; all the open source developers who gave away their work and set open statndards; the soldiers who work for paltry wages in the crappiest working conditions in the world, and some of whom died, to provide the security necessary for our economy and society to survive; the political leaders who generation after generation have built democracy and civil rights ... whoever developed English and the ones who developed C++ ...
All these people give us the opportunity to thrive. Do you think we would do so well without them? Are many startups happening in Somalia or Syria? Why should you or I be excluded from contributing and pulling our weight?