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Except that you can provide evidence for why the wealthy minority is too powerful whereas jews are just attacked for... being jewish. You know, the nazis for example were a minority, that doesn't mean attacking them was bad... populism isn't inherently bad...

This piece is barely a page long. I've been so disappointed with Paul's work recently, he's just been getting lazier and lazier with his essays and I think his political worries and biases are starting to show.

It's more important to look at why the rich might be a problem than why their money might be useful to us. I know a lot of non-billionaires spend their lives defending them, but there is a case to be made for why their industries and disproportionate social power have been hurting society and a wealth tax is a small way of balancing out wealth inequality which, yes, is a bad thing, and you can do a thorough read of wikipedia if you don't think it is a bad thing.

45% of wealth OVER 50 million. How do you not see the difference? The idea is that you wont discourage anyone from doing anything because they're already a multi millionaire. Who is going to be bitter about being a multi millionaire?