Re: Why \"x% of people have y% of the wealth\" is irrelevant.
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Yes you can do it without direct taxation and without interferring in business.
FUNDS DO NOT NEED TO BE REDISTRIBUTED. Funds and wealth are created. (can you not understand that the wealth of today is more than in 1700 AD?)
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We're better off today mainly because of the introduction of better government. There are other reasons, of course.
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Where did that money come from?
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It came from the blood, sweat, and toil of millions of workers, often working for a fraction of the real worth of their labor, in order to enrich the bank accounts of the already rich - so that they can, in turn, become even richer.
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Did someone have that wealth stashed away for noone to see? NO IT WAS CREATED!!!! Bill gates did not get rich by taking money from rich people...he provided a product and people bought it. If you do not want him to get richer...dont buy his products.
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Gates is rich because he was able to introduce his product at a time and in a way that provided him with a near-monopoly on operating system software.
If he had not done it, somebody else would have.
And it's possible - even likely - that we'd all be better off today, if we were using some other software than Windows.
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