Thursday, October 28, 2010

Comments on “Undeserved” Wealth

Johnathan Pearce, in a post at Samizdata titled Desert according to whom?, notes a post at Stumbling and Mumbling titled Self-deception & the undeserving rich.

Both posts make for interesting reading, along with the comments, but I draw your attention specifically to this comment within Pearce’s post.

Another point for redistributionists of all kinds to remember is this: if person A does not, according to some yardstick, “deserve” his or her wealth, then neither does anyone else “deserve” that wealth, either, since why should they presume to grab the benefits of such unearned luck? The logical result, surely, would be to destroy that wealth, so that no-one receives it at all. (bold by ed.)

Samizdata commenter Alisa astutely responds to the words, in bold, above.

Being done as we speak.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/28 at 08:44 AM
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