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How is stealing from Peter to pay Paul going to help solve the world’s financial problems?
by danieltillett 7y ago
How is stealing from Peter to pay Paul going to help solve the world’s financial problems?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoPensions are primarily a concern of the working class, the richer classes benefit from “growth at all cost” policies while everyone else falls behind.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agoIf Peter has greater than 90% of the world's wealth and Paul is starving to death then if you take 0.01% of Peter's wealth you can keep Paul alive. I don't know about solving the world's financial problems though, but somehow I didn't think your post actually was concerned with those either.
- SkyBelow 7y agoSure, but that situation has no bearing on reality if one looks at the actual numbers.
- pytester 7y agoIf Paul parasitically extracted wealth from Peter (e.g. by charging sky high rents on the san francisco flat he inherited) then taking some of it back wouldn't be the worst thing ever.