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I don't care if the rich get richer, provided that the quality of life for the rest of us keeps going up too.

• CamTin 8y ago
  Wealth isn't just about purchasing power, but about control. A small class of people controlling most of the wealth means that they can manipulate/buy the government and make our lives worse in ways that "quality of life" measured in something like the CPI can't fully capture.
  • winstonewert 8y ago
    It seems to me that we would should focus on is how to break the link between wealth and political power. If we could do that than a) we wouldn't care if some people were wealthier if we were all better off and b) the wealth couldn't make themselves wealthier by changing the rules of the game in their favor.
    • kgwxd 8y ago
      By what means? Money easily gets around law.
      • winstonewert 8y ago
        I don't know. Maybe there is no way. But if you can't do that, all other potential reforms are irrelevant.
  • vixen99 8y ago
    For example: George Soros