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Shouldn't we tax capital gains more since they're not working for it? Shouldn't we be rewarding hard work?
We should "reward" hard work in general. However, we shouldn't reward *only* hard work, we shouldn't punish intelligent work, and we shouldn't ignore risk and scope. Not to mention "hard work" is a nebulous idea that has no real honest definition that can be used as an accurate measuring tool. My 6 months working in baggage at TSA felt like "harder" work than the time I spent in the Computer Networking field...and yet I'd absolutely suggest somehow the former needs to be "rewarded" because it's "harder" comparitive to the latter. The level of knowledge, expertise, critical thought involved, and scope for the latter were all far greater despite the work itself perhaps not being as "hard".