Kendall:

I guess that's true of some brands of socialism. But the dualism between "the rich who got that way by exploiting the poor" and "all the people" is kinda strained. An awful lot of people make incomes above the median -- about as many as don't. And in almost every case, the revenue is a result of voluntary transactions all up and down the line.

Where it starts to get rotten is when the forces of defense and the processes of law are used to enforce those transactions, thus corrupting the free-market mechanism in favor of one or another party. Once that starts, all bets are off. As now.

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