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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Or inherited it, or stole it, or won it in a bet

Inherited is the same as built because if your father built it and handed it down to you that is functionally the same. No one stole their business, that is some contrived leftist bullshit. If someone won it in a bet, that is equally inconsequentially rare. So if you have to resort to this kind of "hur dur this exception disproves the rule" bullshit you already lost the argument. You are no longer trying to have a good faith argument. You lost and are desperately trying to save face with any nonsense you can pretend is an argument.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

if your father built it and handed it down to you that is functionally the same.

"I worked hard for my business empire!"

"No you didn't son, you spent all your time screwing hookers and losing money at the casino while getting rich off investments you could only afford because of the business empire I built."

The bottom line here is that you have no idea what capitalism actually is, or how it developed after the 16th century, but you fetishise it as "Capitalism Good". Capitalism isn't trade, it has nothing to do with the free market (you should read what Adam Smith has to say), and it is especially nothing to do with ownership of personal property.