Percy writes:
I guess, if you like, you can think of an insurance company as a redistributor of the wealth gathered through its premiums.
Or you can think of an insurance company as a casino. It's a net loss for almost everybody.
Percy writes:
Actual active redistribution of wealth will always be plagued by the problem that the wealthiest will always be most able to protect their wealth from taxation.
I'm not overly concerned about the wealthy protecting their wealth. I'm mostly interested in getting a minimum amount of wealth down to the lower echelons. Whether they work for it or "earn" it in some other way or even "deserve" it or not isn't even an issue with me.
I'm only interested in people not being poor. Just not being poor
ought to be seen as a benefit to society.