[bryanrasmussen]

>If one person's ideas and actions brings up the standard of living for everyone else, I'm fine with that person having more wealth.

how would that be proved - that is to say there is probably a reasonably causal line to say that their ideas and actions brought up the standard of living for themselves, but the causal line to determine ideas and actions bringing up standard of living for other people would probably be difficult to calculate.

[soco]

I guess they meant that elusive "trickle down economics" concept which always looks like Bigfoot - everybody talks about it but nobody has actually seen it.