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To: tejek who wrote (766414)	1/28/2014 1:44:16 PM
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Thomas Sowell on Income Inequalityby DON BOUDREAUX on JANUARY 28, 2014 in INEQUALITY, SEEN AND UNSEEN I thank William Heasley for drawing my attention to this column on income differences by Thomas Sowell. Here are two slices: Too many discussions of large fortunes attribute them to “greed” — as if wanting a lot of money is enough to cause other people to hand it over to you. It is a childish idea, when you stop and think about it — but who stops and thinks these days? …. Edison, Ford, the Wright brothers, and innumerable others also created unprecedented expansions of the lives of ordinary people. The individual fortunes represented a fraction of the wealth created. Even those of us who create goods and services in more mundane ways receive income that may be very important to us, but it is what we create for others, with our widely varying capabilities, that is the real wealth of nations. Intellectuals’ obsession with income statistics — calling envy “social justice” — ignores vast differences in productivity that are far more fundamental to everyone’s well-being. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg has ruined many economies.

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