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I think you're attributing some sort of negative towards the wealthy that I don't hold. I have no issue with the rich. I have a problem with the lack of negot

I think you're attributing some sort of negative towards the wealthy that I don't hold. I have no issue with the rich. I have a problem with the lack of negotiating power that the poor have. The subsidy comment is intended to illustrate that it's not as simple as 'take money from the rich and give to the poor'. At the moment we have the reverse - the rich are able to give less because the market is not free - the poor are coerced into providing their services for a lower amount because they own nothing.

fsloth 11y ago
"I have no issue with the rich. I have a problem with the lack of negotiating power that the poor have." This! It's not about jealousy but augmenting the winner take all dynamics of uncontrolled economic system into something that feels humanely more fair without disincentivizing or creating pathological scenarios.
baddox 11y ago
I absolutely agree that the distribution of wealth from poor to rich is both real and crappy. And it's not just the "coercion" of having to trade labor for basic needs. The government (often at the behest of the very wealthy) has blatant poorer-to-richer income distribution policies. Virtually all subsidies of special interests are examples of this. Tariffs and other trade restrictions are examples of this. Social Security is an example of this (perhaps not by design). Inflation can be an example of this.