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The Matthew Effect rules: 1. More money makes it easier to earn more money. 2. More money buys more ways to avoid taxes, both legally and illegally. 3. More
by eevilspock 9y ago
The Matthew Effect rules:
1. More money makes it easier to earn more money.
2. More money buys more ways to avoid taxes, both legally and illegally.
3. More money buys more political power (i.e. corruption of democracy).
4. More political power ensures 1, 2 and even 3.
- microcolonel 9y agoThere's an independent variable in this: how broad the government's mandate is. If the mandate is narrow, none of the above steps have much negative effect on the functioning of society. If the mandate of government is broad, or capable of becoming broader, all of them have a negative effect, and the third ensures that the mandate broadens, which grows the negative effect proportionally.