Sharing vs. Trading (Which System Seems Fairer To You?)
Sharing: Sharing is when resources are distributed according to their relative value to different people. In a system based on sharing a person who is starving will value food more highly than someone who is not and will therefore be more likely to have food shared with them.
Trading: Trading is when resources are distributed according to their relative value to different resources. In a system based on trading a person who has food will be more likely to trade with someone who isn't starving and has a resource of equal value than with someone who is starving and has no resources to trade. Of course it is also possible that in such a system the person who has food could at any time decide that nothing was of equal value to their food, refuse to trade or share it with anyone who might value it more highly than themselves, and thus, by extension, be capable of hoarding all kinds of things that others might desperately need. This is what today is known as "wealth consolidation" or, in the event that the resource that is being hoarded happens to be power (like the power to control what is punishable behavior and what isn't in a society), "power consolidation".
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