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Old 08-22-2009, 12:19 PM   #36
classicman
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
There was huge wealth in America 120 years ago. It was held in the hands of a relatively small group of people. There is now even greater wealth in America. It is still held in the hands of a relatively small group of people.
Well, relatively speaking, you may be correct about the amount of wealth that there was in America a hundred years ago, then again there really wasn't even much of an America to speak of.

However, The distribution of wealth will never be equal in a free society. Additionally, to simply view "the wealth" as a stagnant amount and to then conclude from that, that some must be taken from one in order for it to be given to another is also false.

One cannot be raised by lowering another. That doesn't work.
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