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> It's a hypothetical suggesting something about Musk and Bezos personalities and/or intent, not about their actual ability to make things better. I was respon
by chordalkeyboard 6y ago
> It's a hypothetical suggesting something about Musk and Bezos personalities and/or intent, not about their actual ability to make things better.
I was responding to the below. There’ a perspective that the magnitude of their wealth represents their current level of contribution to helping these people, and reappropriating that wealth would decrease their contribution by misallocating their property.
>> The problem is starting out on that path towards equal distribution is going to mean they lose a lot of money.
- vidarh 6y agoI don't see how your assumption follows from that statement at all. I see it as a statement suggesting that their current fortunes are simply not big enough that any kind of redistribution sufficient to make a major difference wouldn't have a measurable effect on them personally.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoI’m taking that as granted and going further: redistribution at any scale is unlikely to have the desired effect on the poor, regardless of how it affects the person being expropriated.