[ghostwriter]

> A footrace (and sports in general) is a really poor metaphor for economics & tax policy. A better metaphor is pruning trees in a forest so that smaller ones actually get enough light to grow instead of withering away on the floor.

By that standard, a legit analogy in that case would still be basketball. Let's cut legs a bit to everyone taller 6' so that shorter ones actually get enough opportunity to score, instead of them abandoning this amazing sport and spending their days at office in a hope to get wealthy by their economic skills one day.

[mdorazio]

And there you go still using sports metaphors. Life is not a competition. Treating it like it is generally leads to bad outcomes for both individuals and societies.

[Akababa]

You're the one who brought up the forest metaphor, where plants compete for light.