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Maybe it's a bad idea to let people get really rich.
by rekado 8y ago
Maybe it's a bad idea to let people get really rich.
- coryrc 8y agoSweden has more billionaires per capita than the US.
- rekado 8y agoI'm not talking about the US. I'm talking about the world. This is not a competition. Maybe it is generally a bad idea to concentrate financial means in few people. I don't want to depend on a billionaire's altruism.
- Felz 8y agoCounterpoints: 1. It's not concentration, it's creation. There's probably not an active conspiracy to make the rich richer. (Your phrasing seemed to connotate that) http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html 2. We tried forming a broad spanning coalition and charging it wit public transportation (among other things). Then we gave it 30-40% of all economic activity. And yet, people apparently still feel like only excitable billionaires can fix public transport. I don't see how taking more money from the billionaires and putting it into the government would help.