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They don't have any wealth in the system you're projecting.

Wealth is the ability to trade with people. If there were somehow only 10 "employed" people in the world, then the economy is 10 people big, which means none of them are wealthy.

One way to see that this scenario is absurd is that it's literally the plot of Atlas Shrugged.




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