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If we gave more stuff to people who did harder jobs, immigrant day laborers would be rich and trust fund investors would be poor.

I think you realized that you were on shaky ground and stuck "effective" in there, but I'm going to call you on that one: please, explain to me how the strong correlation between shitty jobs and shitty pay is entirely about leveraged value creation and not at all about social status and Rules for Rulers?

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Sadly that perspective is misguided - its harder to be a trust fund investor. The evidence is right in front of you, otherwise the labourers would be doing that instead.

Life is not fair and not everyone who works hard gets paid more. However on average the better skilled get paid more, and this is exactly why so many immigrants come to America despite our supposed bare-knuckle form of capitalism - we are a place where people who work hard and succeed can get ahead.

Please, if you don’t like America then don’t come here, or if you are here just leave. However a lot of supposed socialist utopias in Europe have effectively zero immigration that allows you to be a full citizen on their pension rolls. Just see how hard it is to immigrate to the Netherlands or Norway.

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