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Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq... by malandrew on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:14PM (#18490206)
That interferes with individual liberty. Robert Nozick did a great job illustrating this with his Wilt Chamberlain example:

The font is terrible, but this is the shortest explanation of it that I could find easily:

http://faculty.seattlecentral.edu/jhubert/wiltchamberlainarg...

Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq... by munk-a on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:24PM (#18490272)
I find the denial of a healthy existence to those impoverished to be much more an interference in individual liberty than the denial of people's ability to hand over money for a particular service.

I also think this example may be valid for some discussions but in the modern world where the acquisition of wealth is denied from a large portion of the population this example fails to provide value.