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Default The Price of Plutocracy

"HeyBub" wrote:

Let's say that sometime back the total wealth of a community was, oh, $1
billion divided 70-30 between the rich and the poor. Further, let's say that
today the wealth of that same community is $2 billion, divided 90-10.

Obviously the rich got richer. The poor probably got richer, too, but by not
nearly as much. Liberals see this as a grievous wrong, but they don't see
the obvious: The total wealth of the community DOUBLED but the poor did not
get a similar percentage increase. Why?


Somebody is arithmetic challenged. In the first case, the poor have $300
million and in the second, $200 million. They definitely did not get richer.
-- Doug
 
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