Re:Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all wealth by 2030
by wiz21c on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:51PM
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Fortunately, thanks to your solution, the basic services for the bottom 50% will make them no less free than slaves... (admittedly, history happens like that but it's been continually fought)
The follow-on question is: what do we do about it? Attempts to artificially "correct" inequality for the sake of correction are universally disastrous. Progressive taxation and redistribution are, I think, reasonable, as is universal basic income, and sound government has a huge role to play. But the goal should be to provide basic services and create opportunity for the bottom 50%, not wrest control of wealth from the top 1%.
The goal of actually stamping out inequality is a fool's errand.