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It's more important to watch the median standard of living explode upwards over the last 200 years than to blame the peak for being a little higher.

It's not the top percentile who have the ability. We have to all do it for each other.




> It's not the top percentile who have the ability. We have to all do it for each other.

Sure. And part of that is making sure that wealth is being distributed with the health of society in mind, rather than individual happiness at the top :)


Fixed pie fallacy. We have a shrinking middle class because the middle class has become the upper class, not because the rich are richer.

The top being higher doesn't lower the base. There is more money today than a decade ago.

Merely taking money from the wealthy does nothing to improve the standard of living.


Have literally any proof of what you're saying?

> There is more money today than a decade ago.

Where is it then?


https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

https://fee.org/articles/why-our-shrinking-middle-class-is-a...

The answer to where the money has gone is sort of everywhere. Everything from social security payments to military budgets has increased. Everyone makes more and things cost more too.


> And part of that is making sure that wealth is being distributed with the health of society in mind, rather than individual happiness at the top :)

Making sure it will happen will kill it. You have to have the right mechanisms in place to encourage it, and it may happen.


The top percentile has much, much more ability to influence society than poorer people do. And with more power should always come more responsibility.

To suggest that there's equally distributed chance, ability and responsibility is perverse; it flies in the face of reality.


> To suggest that there's equally distributed chance, ability and responsibility is perverse; it flies in the face of reality.

I didn't suggest that. And if I did, it wouldn't be perverse.


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