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by qwertox 437 days ago
Apparently it is a stylistic choice to add a pause, acceptable in informal or rhetorical writing, though grammatically incorrect.

Like: "I'm getting fed up of making the rich... well, richer".

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The problem with using this as an analogy is that the commas attach to the interjection "well," not to the words "rich" or "richer." Remove the "well" and you should remove all the punctuation around it.

"I'm getting fed up of making the rich... richer" might be grammatically ok in informal text, but a comma is definitely wrong.

It’s not wrong if it’s commonly used and commonly understood
Of course it is. Doing a wrong thing a lot doesn't make it less wrong. Over time maybe its "wrongness" will change the way language naturally changes over time.

But today, it's wrong.

That change has already occurred. What are you waiting for?
Its wrong