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by TFYS 315 days ago
Where does this return on investment come from? From people working. It's not possible for everyone to live on investments, someone has to do the actual work. Imagine if everyone started investing most of their money now, and after a generation or two everyone had enough capital to live on the interest alone. Who would do the work? I think we would benefit more from letting a larger part of the returns that work creates go to the people who do the work, not to the people that happen to have a lot of capital.