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"The 1% of people will have everything and the remaining 99% will starve" It's been tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution http://en.wikipedia.o
by knieveltech 15y ago
"The 1% of people will have everything and the remaining 99% will starve"
It's been tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
In the US, you try for a wealth distribution anything approaching what you're discussing and what you'll actually end up with is 1% of the population under a constant barrage of sustained small arms fire. Parents aren't going quietly watch their children starve.
Incidentally, I agree wholeheartedly that we need a better redistribution system.
- sanderjd 15y agoIt will be interesting (and terrifying! don't get me wrong, but also interesting) to see what happens if we get to this point - there is no Bastille for the masses to storm, throwing out the entirety of the democratic government would accomplish very little in terms of wealth redistribution, and the military now has the literal capability, though hopefully not the strength of will or weakness of conscience, to kill every member of the starving horde. Our distribution of wealth may not be as skewed as pre-revolutionary France, but our concentration of might is far higher.