Re:Income inequality today may be higher today than in any o...
by Retra on Monday July 04, 2016 @10:08PM
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What is obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to anyone else. If I look around and see something different, then what?
I'm not disagreeing with your conclusions. Your previous argument is crap, and that should be obvious.
This:
"In order to equalize income, those of greater-than-average productivity would have to have some of their wealth redistributed, ergo less free."
Is part of an actual argument. "Just look around" is not.
But for what it's worth, I do not agree that freedom intrinsically requires total control of wealth. That it currently does is an artifact of our present culture. I don't even agree that the wealth is "theirs" to begin with.
I'm not disagreeing with your conclusions. Your previous argument is crap, and that should be obvious.
This:
"In order to equalize income, those of greater-than-average productivity would have to have some of their wealth redistributed, ergo less free."
Is part of an actual argument. "Just look around" is not.
But for what it's worth, I do not agree that freedom intrinsically requires total control of wealth. That it currently does is an artifact of our present culture. I don't even agree that the wealth is "theirs" to begin with.