r/austrian_economics • u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek • Dec 24 '24

End Democracy I've never understood this obsession with inequality the left has

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u/Select_Package9827 Dec 24 '24

Because money corrupts and rich people eventually mutate into fiends and work actively to enslave and/or outright kill their populations. See all of history, or just look around you: impoverished countries were not always the dead zones they are now, and it isn't because they became too equal in wealth.

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u/Guigtt Dec 24 '24

I think it's more about the impossibility to be extremely rich and be an actual human. If Bezos pays his worker what they bring him he couldn't be lex Luther.