... men inte till det som många av oss tror.
Paul Graham skriver intressanta saker igen:
All the unfun kinds of wealth creation slow dramatically in a society that confiscates private fortunes. We can confirm this empirically. [...] At various times and places in history, whether you could accumulate a fortune by creating wealth has been turned on and off. [...]
We've even had a twin study: West Germany [ - ] East Germany. In every case, the creation of wealth seems to appear and disappear like the noise of a fan as you switch on and off the prospect of keeping it. [...] If you suppress variations in income, whether by stealing private fortunes, as feudal rulers used to do, or by taxing them away, as some modern governments have done, the result always seems to be the same. Society as a whole ends up poorer. [...]
You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.
Fantastisk observation.
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