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The primary issue with our economy is that each dollar one has makes it easier to obtain the next dollar. If you play that out to its only possible conclusion, you wind up with all of the money in very few hands. Somehow, that money has to go back into circulation, in the form of loans, grants, charity, salaries, etc. or our economy simply won't be an economy anymore.

It has never been the role of government in a capitalist society to hand out money, nor should it be. Government's role is to create a legislative structure that incentivizes behavior that leads to a healthy economy and society. If we have a problem with the stockpiling of wealth, then we need to craft new laws that disincentivize that behavior. Something needs to change, but it doesn't involve firing up the money presses.




Governments role is whatever its citizens decide it should be. There are no absolute rules. Every generation makes that decision for themselves.


These two paragraphs seem at odds. Taxing the accumulation of wealth and distributing the results seems an effective way of disincentivizing the behavior and putting the money "back into circulation", and doesn't involve any money presses.




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