Well, buying does involve a willingness to sell. You could say everyone has a price... offer me a $million for my house (market "worth" maybe $250k) and I might take you up on it... Or I might decide fuck it, I like it here. Of course then you offer $10mil and....??Martin Hash wrote: ↑Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:11 amThe problem occurs when the billionaires decide they want to own everything. Money is supposed to represent assets, but in reality there is no real connection so the artificial nature of money can be exploited. America has assets of $100 trillion; what’s to stop 1000 hundred-billionaires from buying every single thing in the U.S.? Without redistribution of wealth, that’s a real threat.
Then again, offer me $10,000 for my aging pet that I gotta take to the vet this afternoon (eye infection, sigh) and I'd tell you to fuck off no matter the price, even knowing his "Value" will be zero in probably under 5 years.
Of course if you can buy the courts and buy the town govt you could probably get my pet confiscated by some new ordinance - that to me is the real danger, not mutually agreed upon financial transactions between two people, but the powerful person buying the influence to force me to sell against my will. That's why I have problems with eminent domain and how it's been used at times.