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What Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand about economic equality

m.knox

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Replace "Bernie Sanders" in the headline with "the left".... I've said it for a while now, liberals hate freedom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...256346-7396-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html

The fundamental producer of income inequality is freedom. Individuals have different aptitudes and attitudes. Not even universal free public education, even were it well done, could equalize the ability of individuals to add value to the economy. Besides, some people want to teach, others want to run hedge funds. In an open society, rewards are set not by political power but by impersonal market forces, the rewards of which will differ dramatically but usually predictably. Beyond freedom’s valuable fecundity in producing unequal social outcomes, four other facets of today’s America fuel inequality.

Check out this line.....

“It is misguided to endorse economic egalitarianism as an authentic moral ideal.”
 
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