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kleinbl00 · 4803 days ago · link · · parent · post: Elizabeth Warren Quote about the Social Contract Implied in Success
That's essentially saying "I recognize the flaws in my thinking, which is why I'm willing to jigger the numbers so that my bad idea temporarily provides similar results to everyone else's good idea."
What you're doing is saying "this class of people is treated different than that other class of people because they make less money." It doesn't matter what that number is - you're still dividing a continuum into discrete intervals. Rather than acknowledging that wealth is a spectrum, you're chopping it arbitrarily into "rich" and "poor." Know why US taxes are so retardedly complicated? Tax brackets. Know why the wealthy pay less taxes than you do? Because retardedly complicated systems favor those who can pay professionals to save them money. I don't care where you put that number. Guaranteed, the minute you institute it you'll generate an entire industry dedicated to making it look like their clients are on the shiny side of it.