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Free markets reward those most who choose to invest in things that help other people. Dollars are just tokens of favor. For example, if I had bought a fancy car when I made my first big chunk of money, that car would have made me happy but would not have made other people happy. Therefore those other people would not have given me tokens of favor / dollars and I would not have any more money. Instead, I invested that money into hiring the best people I could to do even better work for my customers. That investment did not make me happy like a car would have, but it did make my customers happy and it made my new employees happy. I was rewarded with more dollars and now had ten times as much money as that car would have cost. At that point, I could have bought a small house and made myself happy. But I chose instead to stay in a little apartment and to hire even more employees. That made my customers even happier and made my old and new employees happier. I kept repeating that cycle many times over, choosing to try to make other people happy with my work and money and it keeps rewarding me.
Many people look at Warren Buffet and say why is he still working every day at 90 years old? He has made hundreds of millions of customers and employees happy through his life and that virtuous cycle made him a billionaire. He has the best track record of anyone in making others happy with investments, which is why he is the a billionaire.
Compare that to central government bureaucrats. People who don’t care whether you are happy or not, people who don’t even really care if their investments pay off and help anyone or not. People who have no motivation Or incentive to help. Central government planning usually leads to disastrous economies where no homes get built and people starve. A century ago in America we had nearly zero Central planning and everything was free markets. We had the largest and fastest growing and most successful economy on the planet. Now we are running out of homes as the government has gotten involved in central planning and makes it difficult and expensive for someone to invest and do. I myself have waited 6 years in Pierce County, Washington for a short plat. I have had neighbors clamoring to buy crushed Rock from me, but it will be probably years before I am legally allowed to sell any of it if I ever even chose to do that as the permitting expenses are so astronomical.
When you hear all of these people saying let’s steal from the rich, what they are saying is let’s steal from those who have made the most people happy and work the hardest to make good investments in all of our futures.