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@mirgro -

Here is the problem:

With the aforementioned case, we have a supply/demand chain already established. High-value workers are building the planes. If you take the money away from the CEO, and create other jobs with it, you must question a few things:

- Who gets the jobs? Are any even created?
- How is the decision made for the jobs given? Political clout? Favors? Merit?

- If you are simply giving them money, who is to say it will create anything usable and valuable to society?



That is where I find issues with your logic. Taking money away from one person, and giving it to another doesn't always equal out. If the poor people take the money, and spend it on useless things (which is more likely the case), then the money will have been wasted. They may not use the money to improve their life in any meaningful way, nor invest the money.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

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Also, mirgro, given your lack of profile information, I must ask:

What kind of job do you have in the real world?



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.

I'm a programmer. I actually fall somewhere between the high and middle classes, right on the edge.

But as I was saying, the money will always get to the rich, and it will always get to the poor, since it's a cycle.

If the middle classes have more money and the rich don't then you will see a spike in the amount of people working in the services of the middle class and a drop of the services of the rich class.