Thank you so much for posting that. I stopped reading at that point and went to the comments specifically looking to see if that upset anyone else.
The size of the economic pie is not fixed. If a person works hard and builds a chair out of a lump of wood, the pie just grew. And if you build a factory that builds those chairs, and you get rich, the pie grew that much more. You stole nothing, and you created much. You could just sit on your butt and do nothing (or collect welfare?).
The fallacy that the rich steal every dollar from those below them is so often used to support socialist style wealth redistribution. It drives me batty.
The size of the economic pie is not fixed. If a person works hard and builds a chair out of a lump of wood, the pie just grew. And if you build a factory that builds those chairs, and you get rich, the pie grew that much more. You stole nothing, and you created much. You could just sit on your butt and do nothing (or collect welfare?).
The fallacy that the rich steal every dollar from those below them is so often used to support socialist style wealth redistribution. It drives me batty.