Re:How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality
by tnzn on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:48AM
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Is that because the government redistributes the wealth, or because the powerful ones make it so that redistributing the wealth doesn't work ? (ie tax evasion)
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Re:How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality
by weberc2 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:11AM
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The explanation I've heard is that it disincentives people from the hard work which creates wealth. Anyway, I don't think your explanation "the rich undermine wealth redistribution" explains the parent's conclusion that wealth is destroyed (a failure to redistribute wealth doesn't necessarily result in less wealth overall).