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If you push the button, wealth inequality in the US is reduced to 10% of where it is now. This happens by vanishing the wealth of the wealthy, proportionately according to wealth, until the disparity is reduced by 90%. Do you press the button?

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Are we talking about destroying real commodities or just deleting dollars?

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Deleting dollars as much as that works out to, and then destroying non-visible commodities, and then if that still doesn’t bring down the gap to 90%, then the last bit would be actual physical commodities

9:09 PM · Dec 17, 2020

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I agree with everything except destroying actual physical commodities.

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@OneJuneEvening

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What is the points you are bridging the distance between? The poorest person? The poorest family? The poorest 1%?

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