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by justicezyx 3101 days ago
The problem is not that the growth is not there. But the sharing the growth corresponding to people's contribution.

Do the super rich really should enjoy the wealth? Are those really justified? Do their employees has done proportionally smaller amount of contribution to only entitle to that much less wealth in salary?
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charlesdm 3101 days ago
Wealth != salary. Most wealthy people who got wealthy didn't get there by making a large salary, they (at some point) booked capital gains on something.

Nothing is stopping you from venturing out into the world and setting up a business, and making your way into the 1%.

Most work is commodity work. And in a lot of cases, you have a significant amount of people who can solve a problem. This results in a race to the bottom in terms of compensation.

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Can_Not 3099 days ago
> Nothing is stopping you from venturing out into the world and setting up a business, and making your way into the 1%.

Nothing except the 1%-ers who are pulling up every ladder behind them they can.

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justicezyx 3100 days ago
> Nothing is stopping you from venturing out into the world and setting up a business, and making your way into the 1%.

Well, that's the issue we were discussing: Is there a system that can move the society in a rate that is at least as good as what we have now, but at the same time does not result into the 0.1% problem.

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