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That is true, but at least in theory in democracies people can vote for progressive taxation.

I'm not sure if wealth is any better distributed in autocratic countries, think Putin's Russia and its oligarchs.

Democracy is a continuum, any country can evolve into either direction. It's not like this country is democratic and that is not. Countries have more or less of it.




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