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If you attribute it to individual personality traits, what are you going to do about it? No, it's a wrong system. Break your apathy.
Individual personality traits != human personality traits. Targeting the specific traits in question is not an indictment of humanity in general, nor does it violate the human or civil rights of the individuals displaying these traits.
Any system that tolerates these "individual personality traits" to the detriment of the general public is a "wrong system", regardless of the merits of the remainder of the system's philosophical model. Even a totalitarian dictatorship can (theoretically) operate benevolently under certain circumstances, provided that model prevents these "individual personality traits" from public harm. Meanwhile, fundamentally egalitarian systems are irreparably sabotaged by individuals displaying these traits.
Correcting the "wrong systems" requires targeting these "individual personality traits". Classify an abundance of greed and a deficiency of empathy as mental health conditions and public threats. Restrict the harmful behaviors of the afflicted to protect the public.
This has been done before, in a wide variety of ways, since time immemorial. We've threatened immortal souls. We've tried the cross, and the guillotine. We've praised philanthropists. We've established punitively progressive income taxes and wealth taxes. Some have worked; some have been atrocities. We've achieved effects ranging from wildly successful to catastrophically counterproductive. And too many of the good ones have been rolled back by carriers of these traits.
No "system" that ignores these traits has any chance of success. Any "system" that would succeed needs to successfully target these individual traits.
They are not afraid about us seeing how they roll. They are afraid of a revolution.
They don't need to be afraid. They need their greed held in check. We need punitive top-tier income tax rates. We need a punitive securities tax, applicable to all corporate-held securities, and all individual portfolios values at more than $10 million.
It needs to be cheap and easy for the poor and middle classes to own and/or benefit from shares in the various means of production. It needs to be costly for the rich, and punitively expensive for the ultra-rich to hold those same shares.
We don't need a generalized wealth tax. It's not a problem for the wealthiest to hoard personal property, such as expensive cars, yachts, private jets. These assets are manufactured by workers. Acquiring such assets transfers wealth from owners to workers.
The greediest among us need to be limited from hoarding wealth-generating financial assets: securities. They need to be heavily restricted from purchasing assets that facilitate the transfer of wealth from workers to owners.
Corruption is possible and prevalent in any market philosophy. The "right" system will directly target and correct the root of that corruption.
I hope we can agree they are not entitled to anyones surplus value.