>Your comment was about three brothers where the third was complaining that he was working too much and that the first was working too little. To demonstrate t

>Your comment was about three brothers where the third was complaining that he was working too much and that the first was working too little. To demonstrate the progressive tax system. Completely valid to the real world. >All the examples you listed don't have anything to do with your thought experiment. I hope you didn't interpret my comment as normative or as the right would say "market intervention" I was merely describing one way that the three brothers could get along. That's just not practical. People choose to work 20 hour weeks for various reason, people choose to work more than 40 hour weeks for various reasons. You cant form society into everyone working exactly the same hours. It probably would be a great thing if we could. Allow productive people who work 60 hour weeks to do something different and do more. However, the reality is that we discover income inequality is just a fact because of individual choices. Trying to 'fix' this using a progressive tax system in fact only makes it worse. >I find your comment quite amusing. How do you mean?