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Originally Posted by powerclown
Every nation on earth since the dawn of mankind has had issues of unequal wealth distribution. There currently are many, many other nations with an even more extreme inequality of distribution. It is a huge international challenge, and not unique to America.
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Of course what you say is true, but that doesn't exclude the issue from consideration and us from exercising judgment in our systems of government. While "every nation on earth...has had issues of unequal wealth distribution", those nations have dealt with the issue in different ways. Those different reactions have had different effects. Shouldn't we at least be conscious of what we're doing and what effect it might have, even if we're confronting universal conditions?
Personally, I think you'd be on more solid ground if you tried to argue that the ethics of economic freedom trump economic equality. That's not necessarily my view, but from there you could choose to ignore the practical effects of your argument.