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Redistribution
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48772245
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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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Technically they're right...
Widescale redistribution of wealth demonstrably doesn't work, but the thing is right now the problem has been redistributed into the hands of a select few and it's killing everyone else.
A normal distribution of wealth would be everyone having enough by default, and people being able to earn extra through labor/services.
With a rigid tax system to ensure no one can control an oversized proportion of wealth to the detrement of everyone else.
Don't let them trick you into thinking the current reality is the norm or a standard. We can go the other direction even faster than we got here.
There's never been a "demonstrable" case of a society dying from absolute wealth redistribution/equalization.
Soviet Russia collapsed due to ongoing famines because of Lysenkoism. Had NOTHING to do with redistribution of wealth. It had to do with agricultural malpractice by a conman.
...and even in that system, wealthy politicians and elites were getting most of the redistribution. Just like in Western Society today. So you really have no clue what you're talking about when you say there's been societies collapse from "too much equality".
Source1, Source2.
If you understood what people were saying, I'd bet you'd be pissed off less...
Upward redistribution doesn't work, but you can say that more clearly.
"...the problem..." ? The problem of wealth? You think it would be a problem if anyone else was wealthy? That's not "the problem". Because the topic is Wealth Redistribution (which generally means to the poor, and is thus not a problem).
You're writing in a "preaching to the choir" style, which is apathetic and has smuggies attached, rather than as a more direct appeal to all.