Wealth distribution

[Fragony]

Lately reading your posts is a bit like watching your ability to use outside input slowly fade away since you may react to outside input but you usually do not consider the contents in any way at all. Like you live in your own little world where the only valid arguments are your own and all the other (counter-)arguments are wrong if you just repeat your own arguments ad infinitum.

That's a fair accusation I guess. But it's just how I look at things. Deal with it if I think my arguments are better, or go against them if you think your's are. I am perfectly open to consider your's, don't mind me not agreeing with them.

[Montmorency]

Recessions always shrink the gap between rich and poor.

The rich get off much better in recessions than the middle and lower classes, so no.

Here's a nice aphorism: 'Some mistakes are severe, others minor, but even here there is a difference within the race of men: a pauper's mistake harms no one but the pauper; a king's mistake harm's everyone but the king.'

people should examine how the rich got rich and see if they can emulate that.

Some of us are of the opinion that fewer of us should in fact emulate the paths of the rich - not all the rich, certainly, but I think you know to what/whom I refer.