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It’s not about whether humans think it’s moral or right or whatever that there are people with exponential wealth. It’s just how exponentials work and no amount of policy will fix things like this. There will always be holes because the demand and income are exponential and the money has to go somewhere. You can try to enforce communism and redistribution to employees but imo that just makes the problem worse with the top leaders of nations finding ways to get even more of the pie for themselves.

The other thing to keep in kind is that while having 100mm is a lot of money, it probably does not change your life in exponential ways compared to 10mm, so you can consider some of the wealth essentially “burnt”. Don’t worry too much about specific numbers, as long as normal people have enough purchasing power to survive and be happy.



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