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b_b  ·  4010 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Capitalism vs. Democracy

Yes, I fail to see how this is a matter of left and right politics at all. If we strip away all the theology and just look at the mathematics, there is no possible way in a system that grows exponentially that the top won't grow exponentially faster than everyone else. And furthermore, at the expense of everyone else, given that once enough wealth is accumulated, the rules of the game change, as is pointed out in this quote, "when pay setters set their own pay, there’s no limit..."

I think that comment about orthodoxy was just to try to hedge against people calling him a lefty for pointing out the obvious. The rest of the review is intriguing, IMO.