Again, you should site your source.

nyt not faux news

Before the real plague (bubonic) the land owners would require an animal to be given to them if a male worker died, to compensate the landowner for the lost productivity of the family working the land. During the plague, landowners had such large quantities of animals from this death tax that they needed more workers. The remaining workers were able to relocate to places that could pay them well and a middle class was created. Also, the death tax ended. The plague was one of the most potent forces of income equality the world had seen.

the problem with very few people being very rich while a vast majority are very poor isn't the problem we think it is. Most poor people have no housing, have very little to feed their family(s) let alone themselves, if we were able to get these people off the streets and into good care, that would be awesome. But the problem is, is that some people refuse to work even when givin the opportunity

Why does everyone need to work? Is there a shortage of something?

this is random af but ty for asking that, i actually need a sec to think abt it

I lke to ask radical questions. Helps me get unstuck from the left/right rut.

The only time capitalism is successful is during its growth and expansion. By increasing, it creates jobs, opportunity and money. But only by constantly increasing. Being the we don't live in an infinite world, capitalism is doomed to fail at some point.

this begs the question, how do we maintain our wealth and not go into extreme poverty? socialism seems to work for most countries but for a place like america idk how it'd work tbh