[WalterBright]

> the right is what's causing inequality

If people have rights, then they are unequal. If they have no rights, they are equal.

[WalterBright]

For example, people have a right to create wealth. To make people equal, it is necessary to take that right away.

[tovej]

Nobody said we should make everyone exactly equal, that's a lazy strawman.

Some inequality will always exist, but it should at the very least have a healthy balance point where the poorest get to live a decent life.

Currently, inequality is a labile runaway process, where the Gini-index is running towards a value close to 1.

[komali2]

Hey again, Walter, we always seem to find eachother in these comment threads.

The Soviet Union didn't create wealth? It put a man in space before the USA - that took "wealth" by some definition of the word, perhaps just not "personal wealth."

[WalterBright]

> The Soviet Union didn't create wealth?

In order to prevent famine, the Soviets decided to allow farmers a portion of land where they could sell what they grew. It kept the country from collapsing. Every historical attempt at collective farms collapsed from starvation or was propped up by government money.

[komali2]

So that it created wealth is agreed, now the question is whether it was a socialist planned economy or not?

[AlexeyBelov]

I don't understand why people are still engaging with Walter on economics. He only ever posts the same things again and again: hot takes after taking econ 101.