Re: US inequality of wealth....shocking statistics

Originally Posted by
Kirkland Laing
You can't just create wealth out of nothing. Even if you print money (in normal economic conditions, current situation not remotely normal) you just devalue it. Wealth is earned by increased economic activity and productivity. That wealth is then distributed through the economic system. And if it's distributed very unequally, like it is currently, it leads to a fucked up economic system, like we have now.
I never claimed you can create wealth out of nothing but you also don't create it through redistribution efforts.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government. Thomas Jefferson
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