ALL EVIL LARGE AND SMALL
Crass ignorance, that thought.
Greed = intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.
If that is the sort of world you want to live in, then I suggest you populate a distant planet. Whilst intelligent people here on earth try to "level the playing field".
And that does not mean, as Socialism goes, that we should all be earning the same or similar incomes. Neither should the absurd differences in taxation generate unfair Wealth. There is ample room for a market-economy to apply Capitalism towards investing in new products/services thus creating new markets - and Wealth.
But fairly.
Where we got it monstrously wrong (at present) in the US was thinking that the inducement to do such required a massive reduction on upper-income taxation (introduced by Reckless Ronnie in the 1980s) as presently exists in the United States. - that actually started with (of all people) LBJ in the 1960s. See here:
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The direct result of America's Income Disparity (the worst of any developed nation as shown by the
Gini Index) is a fundamental reason for the great number of families incarcerated below the Poverty Threshold.
That insufficiently-taxed income could have served better purposes.
The situation in America will become more acute every day we waste not bringing Income Fairness to America. Which means what?
It means that we change our taxation system that allows individuals to amass
excessively huge amounts of Wealth, and to pass it down dynastically within the family.
Exactly the same kind of system that we had, once upon a time in America, and against which we fought a revolution.
We need Wealth as the prize for innovation, we don't need billionaires who haven't the foggiest notion of what to do with their Exaggerated Wealth* except to place it on Wall Street - to the great pleasure of those making millions managing it.
We have, as a nation, placed money at the heart of our existence. Money, money, money - the
God of Mammon and the primary source of all evil large and small ...
*Zuckerberg just gifted 6% of his wealth to a good cause that should not need it - had it been taxed and spent intelligently by a government. Or
governments, because Facebook is being investigated for avoiding taxes illegally (
as much as $5B) in both Europe and the US.
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