Comment by ajmurmann
2 days ago
Why care about wealth disparity at all as long as everyone is better off? If I offered you to double your real wealth but also Bezo's real wealth, would you reject that offer just because wealth disparity went up?
2 days ago
Why care about wealth disparity at all as long as everyone is better off? If I offered you to double your real wealth but also Bezo's real wealth, would you reject that offer just because wealth disparity went up?
Because obscene levels of wealth disparity makes everyone worse off. Power is a zero sum game.
If I were offered to double your real wealth but also double Bezos's real wealth, of course I would take that deal! I would benefit from it. But if you offered to double the real wealth of everyone, what would that even mean?
You are confusing money and wealth. We can all be richer. The vast majority today has riches that a medieval king could have never dreamed of. Exotic fruits year around. Magic devices. Healthcare that goes beyond anything medieval people could have imagined.
Yes, unlike economics, politics is zero-sum. The solution to that is to fix the political system, not to destroy the things that are working great.
What political system do you propose where wealth doesn't confer some political power?
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