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Why? J. K. Rowling created the best selling book series of all time and hundreds of millions of people bought and loved her books to read them. What is problematic about that? Should she have just given the last 6 books away for free because she already created too much value for other people writing the first harry potter?

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Nothing is problematic about that. But as a society there is also nothing problematic about raising taxes to 90% on billionaires and giant corporations for their capital gains etc.

I am saying that the ones who generate revenue (money going one way) are not automatically the best to fund social programs (money going the other way).

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