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In Praise of Capitalist Inequality

November 6, 2011 - 12:00 am - by Paul Hsieh
Fabian
2011-11-10 05:27:02

It is exactly because he understands that good fortune has to be produced and cannot be expected to just “continue indefinitely” that he is opposed to a society in which fortunes are expected to just appear out of thin air and distributed accordingly. It is because he knows that he may not always be able to support himself and his family that he is opposed to forcefully distributing what he has now to everyone else as if he could always count on his own living standard to magically remain as high as it is today.