You don't even need to use such a dire example as cancer to see how wealth would get transferred involuntarily. Say your neighbour falls on hard times, and ins

You don't even need to use such a dire example as cancer to see how wealth would get transferred involuntarily. Say your neighbour falls on hard times, and instead of just helping him, you offer to buy some of his land, or his watch, or whatever at a disadvantageous price. Or you lend him money at unfavourable terms. There are real life businesses that operate today, pawn shops, cheque cashing places, that grow wealthy on the poor. The way to avoid giving what little wealth we have to the man, means to rely on one's community, but in North America that is being eroded more and more.