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>I would believe US is far better of at this than any other country I know of.

It's not a leader overall. It may have the most billionaires, but if you're looking at average outcomes you're probably best off in Norway.

>I think any economic system should reward getting wealthy

Absolutely. It doesn't work nearly as well otherwise.

>The poor will be given opportunities, but however remember using them and converting them to goodness is really their responsibility.

Responsibility and availability of opportunities. The more opportunities, the more people benefit. We're talking about increasing the pool of opportunities.



> best off in Norway

Don't use Norway as an example of a prosperous society. It's an extremely oil-rich country, and while it's doing much better than most other oil-rich countries are, it's not like a non-oil-rich country could emulate its policies.

Denmark, Sweeden and Switzerland are much more appropriate examples. However, both Sweeden and Switzerland enjoy plenty of cheap foreign labour (I don't know for Denmark).


We're talking about increasing the pool of opportunities.

And what are the progressive schemes for doing that?


Standard social welfare and insurance comes to mind. There are many possible policies, but that's the outlook at least.


I think any economic system should reward getting wealthy

Huh? Wealth IS the reward. I don't understand why you would reward someone for getting rewarded. Normally, one is rewarded for doing things that lead to desired outcomes.

A rational society would reward people for contributions to the environment, public safety, education, whatever society happens to need.

No rational society would reward spivs for being wealthy, especially if in the process of gaining said wealth the spivs damage society with undesired outcomes. Which is standard operating procedure.

Examples of this abound, including blowing up the housing market then asking for bailouts, corrupting politics through lobbying, polluting the environment or deceiving the public through misleading advertising and public relations, etc etc etc




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