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The same could be said of anything including the keyboard I'm typing this comment on.


Your keyboard is probably used to produce new value for yourself and others, and represents a very small fraction of the economy. A yacht (to continue the example) is a much larger chunk of economic output frozen in the control of a single owner.

I'm not saying nobody should have yachts, just that the argument that the yacht builders were paid only addresses part of the economic effect of concentrated wealth.


Yachts don't operate, maintain, or moor themselves.




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