On: William Gibson: “What would my superpower be? Redistribution of wealth”

[beerbajay]

Is it stealing for the government to take the property of convicted drug dealers, when that property has been acquired through drug sales?

[jakeogh → beerbajay]

If people want to buy/sell/use drugs then that's their business. It's not a problem government can solve. Do we own ourselves or not?

Maybe you missed my point, which is this redistributioin happens often, and not in the direction that the person making the wish wanted.

He's obviously not talking about some petty "drug dealers" anyway.