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Thanks for sharing how "you Know what you know" !
Question for you....what, should happen, if a nineteen year old ivy league college drop out was to come upon an opportunity to pay a small fee for the rights to license a rudimentary computer operating system (OS), and convince a
huge, multinational corporation to pay a generous sum to use that OS in it's own machines, while not prohibiting the young "go between" from preserving his control of that OS...and the "go between" then has the good fortune, and business/promotional accumen, to further develop and parlay that OS into a high growth company that manages, in a few short years, to go public and attain a market cap that is equal to 60 percent of the total wealth in the US, with the young "go between" owning 87 percent of his company's shares....?

The young software company chairman owns shares with a total value equal to that of all other assets in the US, and on the strength of his company's "one product", leveraged via competition crushing tactics and skillful marketing, into a "must have" item for one third of all adults in the developed world, and nearly every business office.

In just a few years, he sells 90 percent of his shares into the market, and he then holds diversified assets nearly equal to the combined assets of everyone else in the US.....

From your POV....what happens next......do we then muddle along in a "free market", "low tax environment", with a wealth distribution "arrangement" that amounts to; "young go between" owns 50 percent of total US assets, top one percent of population owns 16 percent, next nine percent owns 19 percent of total assets, next 40 percent owns 13-3/4 percent of total assets, and the bottom 50 percent..... 150 million people, own the remaining 1-1/4 percent of total US assets.....?

The distribution is almost as extreme now, as what I've just described....the bottom half in the US own 2-1/2 percent of all assets, and the top one percent own 32 percent.....

Is there ever a point....a wealth or income distribution ratio..... where your advocacy for "free markets", and "the individual" would seem "extreme".... even to you?

Is this what's next, for us? When is this ship scheduled to dock in Savannah, NOLA, or in San Ysidro, in Dearborn, or in Milwaukee?