> It’s totally rational if you want to increase taxes on the bottom 80% to subsidize the top 20% (and especially top 5%).
Nothing rational about plutocracies or oligarchies.
Nothing rational about plutocracies or oligarchies.
To take the perspective of the oligarchs and plutocrats, if they can get away with it (avoiding the pitchforks), why isn't it rational?
That doesn't make it fair or just, or sustainable for societies or humanity, but it can be rational.