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Re:Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality by BurningFrog on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:10AM (#21703371)
> capital is a positive feedback loop in a way that labor is not

If that's true, capital sounds awesome!

An automatic wealth generator is something everyone should have, not something you want to tax out of existence!

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Re:Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality by freen on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:40AM (#21703735)
Congratulations, you've invented taxes.

In all seriousness, that is precisely what government is intended to do: take a portion of the private surplus and apply it to the public interest, thus increasing total productivity.

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