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f1yght • today at 3:42 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

People don’t mind mild inequality. Some people have more, that’s fine. When it’s extreme it’s a problem. 100% we need to make sure everyone is taken care of before we worry about if someone can have even more money than they will ever need.


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kelseyfrog • today at 5:36 PM

There was a demonstration of this asking people to divide a pie representing wealth among various low, middle, and upper classes in a way they felt was fair. The result was uneven, upper classes getting more, lower classes getting less. But when compared, the actual division of wealth as demonstrated using a pie resulted in the richest 10% getting 70% no one thought that a system that resulted in such inequality was fair.