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Redistribution takes away one's lawfully acquired resources under veiled threat of death. That sounds a lot more like oppression & theft to me. I believe socia

Redistribution takes away one's lawfully acquired resources under veiled threat of death. That sounds a lot more like oppression & theft to me. I believe social mobility comes from opportunity - and we live in a society with more opportunity than ever. The failure to leverage that opportunity will not be meaningfully improved by redistribution, as both require personal initiative - if that initiative is lacking for one, it's lacking for the other.

frgtpsswrdlame 10y ago
>I believe social mobility comes from opportunity - and we live in a society with more opportunity than ever. Actually social mobility is on the decline in America. It's also lower than in a lot of more redistributive states like the nordic countries, france, canada, etc. Is opportunity on the decline in America? Maybe if we did welfare like those states it would go back up. >The failure to leverage that opportunity will not be meaningfully improved by redistribution This is just not true. Could you please read this short blogpost? It distills some economic research down and should give you a better understanding of why I believe what I believe. http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-income-inequality.html http://glineq.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-schumpeter-hotel-inco...