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If my employer would exploit me for Satoshi, what difference would my soul feel?
Your employer doesn't exploit you. He offers you a job that you can refuse..If you don't then it means you are better off with this job than without it. If you feel that he is getting more than you through this voluntary exchange, just change or start your own business Parasitic mindset is not good friend, get out of it.
While it was a joke, you should know that not everyone can start a business "just like that". You need capital and whatnot. And if everyone would start a business, you'd have no one to clean the streets, pick up strawberries and so on. You still need those people with "parasitic mindsets ". Thinking that a job that's paid unfairly is a choice? While some people say that <we all should have a side hustle>, they don't think that for others it means cleaning shit in other people's homes after 12 hours of hard physical work, just as an example. Can you tell me what would this do to one's soul? It's a rhetorical question. And please don't take it as me throwing crap at you, I just want to show you a different perspective and I genuinely hope to not offend you in any way. If somehow I did it, I apologise.
You don't offend me as you are respectful and seem of good faith The point here is not to say that life would be easy with the good mindset, even if it surely would be a bit easier without all the negative thoughts, envy and anger. The point is just for those with what I call parasitic mindset, to acknowledge that they are better off with this horrible job rather that without it. It's not up to you to decide if the salary is fair or not. The fairness is decided naturally through the value you bring on a free market which determines how much you are worth. Their is nothing more fair than voluntary cooperation between individuals. Plus you are missing the point, most of these people could very well start a business to do the exact same job they are already doing, as independent contractors. Their is a lot of jobs which are not capital intensive. Sometimes they'd need to take a loan sure, but it's within the reach of almost anyone to start a modest business, this is a false excuse to say the opposite. But here again they don't do it because it's risky to do so, and they prefer to have a fix income decided in advanced by contract.
And to change these ridiculous pieces of paper for others each time you cross an imaginary line called a border drawn by a mafia called the State. Or pay ridiculous exchange fees to get the electronic money of the other countries if you have a bank account. Anyway. No... Fiat doesn't work great AT ALL. This is not how money is supposed to work. It should be emerging from a free market and thus be the same for whole humanity IMO