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To: SoFloFreeper

The growing inequality and concentration of wealth is due to differences in individuals with respect to ambition, intelligence, prudence, willingness to take risk, and ability to delay gratification. No other explanation required.


6 posted on 04/25/2014 4:59:04 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: LambSlave
...and the reason the wealthiest counties in the country are all clustered around Washington DC is...prudence and delay of gratification? I think you forgot collusion and corruption. Or maybe you think the rash of a couple dozen banksters taking a header off the top of tall buildings is due to "willingness to take risk" and intelligence.

That having been said there is no intrinsic problem with wealth inequality. The leftwingers always ignore that industry creates more wealth, it doesn't just reorganize a static quantity that becomes maldistributed.

The basic fundamental underlying premises of these tiresome statists are false. This latest entry is a mere rehash of the same old same old...

8 posted on 04/25/2014 5:11:21 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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