An idea from Principles of Political Economy

The line between making wealth and sharing it is less clean than it sounds. People choose their sharing rules but can’t choose what those rules then do. How a society shares also changes how hard people work and save, so economists still argue about where the line falls.

From Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

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