[quote=no_such_reality][quote=paramount][quote=no_such_reality] Nor am I aware in his work where people come up with a surgeon and janitor making the same.[/quote]
How else would one eliminate class warfare?[/quote]
Estate taxes so wealth isn’t passed generationally? Direct taxation of wealth (assets) and not income? Class isn’t having money or not, class is a level of privilege.
Keep in mind Marx lived during Dickenesque London, died about the beginning of the Gilded Age. Child Labor, no real safety concerns for workers, seventy hour work weeks were the norm. A few decades later, Ford was considered radical in raising wages to attract workers to the assembly line.[/quote]
A steeply progressive income tax where ALL forms of wealth are taxed equally is the best way to prevent gross wealth and income inequality. The reason for the rich getting wealthier at an accelerating rate over time is because of passive “unearned” income. Tax that income appropriately, and the wealth never gets to the point that it becomes a major problem.
And there is nothing wrong with making good money if one truly earns it, nor is there anything wrong with accumulating wealth and passing it on to your heirs. The problem arises when the wealth disparity reaches such a point that the masses never have a chance to catch up, eventually having to beg for their basic necessities and perform whatever tasks their masters want, for whatever wages their masters desire to pay, because they have no other choice.
