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You mean ordinary people might develop a bad view of the untouchably wealthy because of the system they created to preserve their wealth? Cry me a river.


>preserve their wealth

Like it or not, they created it.

Should we extract more taxes from them, yes, arguably. But we don't have to resort to blackmail or other underworld tactics since it really accomplishes nothing other than momentary outrage by the mob.

Get congress to enact laws that close loopholes.


You don’t actually become extremely wealthy by creating wealth, you become wealthy by extracting wealth from other people’s work.

Either by inheriting it or some business arrangement where you keep value created by other people. Bill Gates for example didn’t code Windows 7 himself. JK Rawlings didn’t print millions of Harry Potter books or even produce the movies etc. Sorts superstars don’t build stadiums or collect ticket sales etc.

This is most obvious with investments dividends. As such thinking of capital gains as the fruit of their effort is really kind of a silly idea.


> Get congress to enact laws that close loopholes.

And we do that by exposing the problems of the existing system and galvanizing people to demand change. Which is what these articles are doing.




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