Here’s a classic article far too few have read.
Inequality and Wealth, by Paul Graham.
Here’s a taste…
Suppose you wanted to get rid of economic inequality. There are two ways to do it: give money to the poor, or take it away from the rich. But they amount to the same thing, because if you want to give money to the poor, you have to get it from somewhere. You can’t get it from the poor, or they just end up where they started. You have to get it from the rich.
Paul Graham is a dot com millionaire who founded ViaWeb and sold it to Yahoo (it’s now Yahoo stores). His essays are excellent and under appreciated.
