The fallacious case for abolishing the rich
Arguments for caps on income and wealth are simple, rousing and wrong
Two new books argue for doing away with the rich. Not in the Pol Pot sense of murdering them all, for the writers—a Dutch professor of ethics and the director of a left-wing British think-tank—are impeccably nice. Rather, they favour policies that would make it impossible to have “too much” money.
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