Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
by ajross on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:01PM
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> I can't think of any laws/rules/different version of our world where wealth won't always concentrate to the top.
The question is numeric. Obviously any system is going to be disproportionate in some way. The question is whether it's OK as it is. The answer for liberal democracies of the last three quarters of a century has been some variant of "this is fine, rising tides lift all boats".
But at this point that's becoming increasingly hard to justify. In fact by most measures the boats stopped rising about 20 years ago, yet the people in the yachts off shore have continued climbing higher and higher.
So the answer to your question is "more than they are now", almost certainly.
The question is numeric. Obviously any system is going to be disproportionate in some way. The question is whether it's OK as it is. The answer for liberal democracies of the last three quarters of a century has been some variant of "this is fine, rising tides lift all boats".
But at this point that's becoming increasingly hard to justify. In fact by most measures the boats stopped rising about 20 years ago, yet the people in the yachts off shore have continued climbing higher and higher.
So the answer to your question is "more than they are now", almost certainly.