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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 1389 Wealth Distribution
Description: It’s the distribution of wealth that makes redistributing it an imperative. If 1% of the population own a third of the real wealth, especially if they can pass it down through the generations, that’s simply an aristocracy without titles. The people who have the wealth, of course, like it like that but as history shows, if wealth distribution doesn’t somehow align with people’s expectations in benign ways, eventually it will be redistributed in violent ways.
Wealth redistribution is a divisive topic because the majority of people will benefit at the minority of people’s expense. In a pure democ...