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necrosis: your entire line of "thinking" presupposes that
(1) the accumulation of wealth happens independently of a social system--you know, capitalist economy, which is intertwined with all kinds of other social systems--which is ludicrous;
(2) that the unequal/uneven distribution of wealth owes nothing to the structural characteristics of capitalism and everything to Individual Gumption etc., which is just idiotic. the correlate of this is that a radically uneven distribution of wealth is natural, which is false. another correlate is that there are no political problems that follow from a radically uneven distribution of wealth--which is the stuff of fantasy.
(3) that because there are no political correlates to the accumulation of wealth, those who accumulate wealth owe nothing back for the maintenance of that social system, the one that enables them to extrct wealth in the first place, which is...well...the kind of surreal nonsense i have come to expect from rightwingers who like to think taxation is a kind of punishment
of course the conservative tax cuts are an element in a version of class warfare.
capitalism is built around class warfare: it IS class warfare, just as it IS the motor of more or less continual crisis that requires the action of the state to regulate it (regulate in the sense of balance, adjust, maintain.....conservative delusions of the "free market" are just that).
if you look at capitalism from the point of view of individuals to the exlcusion of systematic considerations, you are not in fact looking at anything.
on the second question: you provided nothing like a coherent critique of the premise, but recycled some conaservative recieved wisdom, so it would follow that you do not see the relevance of the second question, which is simply a rhetorical reversal of the first one.
on the third: just asking. its a legit question. it's sometimes nice to know whose water is being carried.
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