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Naval ravikant put it succinctly , the real issue is that once the 51% know they can vote to redistribute the wealth of the remaining 49%, then that opens the door to...well, the JRE clip goes deeper

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHim7CMOZ6U




And this is supposed to be worse than 1% accumulating most of the wealth how?


Are you ready to argue that the poor are better off when everyone is poor, and inequality is nonexistent ?

Because thats called north korea/ussr... and people routinely risked their lives to escape that equality...

Here is how i think your point of view becomes stronger:

Say inequality exists - but show how did it get there? Is it corrupt wealth? Does inequality persists because movement between wealth levels is becominy stale?

For example, did bezos sell slaves or sell missiles? Or did he get rich getting to sell you stuff which you really like?

Or, is there a chance your avg 1%er could be wiped out tomorrow? Or is being in the 1% sticky...like it is in the UK, Italy and france, where the same 5 families had the same wealth since the middle ages ?

If you have a fair shot at the 1% , and if the road to get there is morally sound, then you wont hear of anyone to complain of inequality.

Show which of the 1% is morally corrupt, and where progress in wealth dynamism is stalling, and im there to argue with you that we need to fix it.




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