Wealth redistribution is often discussed in terms of “divvying up the pie fairly.” Nobody seems too interested in where exactly the pie came from.
Recently, I saw this on Twitter from the Ayn Rand Bot (thanks to @downtownjeff for RT that one):
When great industrialists made fortunes on a free market…they created new wealth—they did not take it from those who had not created it.
Great point.
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