Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.

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Jeffrey Tucker was a contemporary American libertarian writer and advocate. Jeffrey Albert Tucker is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Freedom — The value of liberty, independence, and self-determination
  • Politics — Governance, civic duty, and the structures of power

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