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by dragonwriter 4357 days ago
> The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.

That's pretty much true-by-definition when it comes to "capitalist societies", but most advanced modern societies aren't really capitalist, and while the course hasn't been strictly monotonic, they've been overall getting farther from capitalism since the late 19th Century heyday of capitalism.