I find all of this broohaha about wealth distribution incredibly humorous and fascinating.
- What makes any one individual think they ought to get to choose who has how much and what is fair?
- If you get to choose, then what is fair? The limit is pure (unachievable) communism. Anything else is an arbitrary, unfair number. Does someone with 100x as much wealth as you have 100x more power? Does someone with 1,000,000 as much as you have 10x more power? Maybe they're just smarter about how to get money and how to wield influence and the money is just an irrelevant product of that?
The issue with "wealth inequality" is that there's no objective way to determine what's "equal enough". When there's less wealth, everything is more equal, but that tends to end up in a strongman dictatorship. When there's more wealth, there's much more "inequality" but much less centralization of power. Just look at Trump's election, regardless of whether you like the dope; if there was some Illuminati pulling the strings he wouldn't be in office. No one controls your destiny but you and income inequality has not resulted in a worse-off world EXCEPT when it is inequal by force as in a totalitarian system.
And those referencing the inevitable "revolutions" that result are referring to nations that were not formed to protect the individual's rights from the mob as the US was. That said, the Left in the US is doing its best to undermine individual rights in favor of group rights and warfare that trample the individual and that will lead to bad things. But as long as we have a system that protects the rights of each individual, income inequality isn't an issue. The higher the top end in a capitalist system, the higher the bottom end. Inequality SHOULD always be growing if wealth is being created. It shrinks when wealth is being destroyed.
*Sigh* The demands for central planning of all of our lives and assets is always amusing ... until it becomes reality. Then it's just criminal.
Ah, and one more thing; let's dispel the fiction about the benefits of the Nordic Countries/Canada: These countries have high taxes, no national defense, small, homogeneous populations, and are generally fiscally insolvent. Oh, and the rich in those countries pay for underground or foreign healthcare because healthcare is horribly overburdened and unavailable in most cases. Europe has been a walking disaster for centuries and for some reason the left in the US acts like we should act more like them. I mean, I just can't wrap my head around it.