[lovich]

Its the marginal utility of money. I'm about to pick numbers out of a hat for demonstration. If it takes 18k to live at a bare minimum each for everyone, then the guy making minimum wage and pulling home 20k a year and the guy pulling home 100k a year have a completely different calculus. That 2k surplus for the minimum wage worker could easily be killed by a single week of illness just between medical bills and not working. The guy bringing home 100k a year can survives problems that are magnitudes more expensive. This gets more egregious as income inequality scales. Its not like billionaires who are earning millions of times more than a janitor can eat millions of more burgers or need millions of more houses

[pyronik]

I understand the marginal utility argument. That argument assumes there is any moral right to steal from one person and give to another in the first place. I disagree there is. This is an analogy NOT a comparison... but its like saying its ok take the heart of an old person to give to a child because they would get more use out of it. Yes, that's true, but its a non starter due to the deprivation of the rights of the old person.