The Great Divergence

[kandrathe]

This makes no sense to me.

You get wealth one of two main ways: you inherit it, or you save it from earnings. If you want people to earn money, and you're okay with inheritance, then what's your problem with wealth inequality? All wealth inequality is either the product of one or the other, no?

I don't have a problem with a wealth inequality. I have a problem with the worker(proletariat) being saddled with the burden of government. I want to shift the burden of government to the capitalist (bourgeoisie) to enable more of the proletariat to become bourgeois. Think of it as a bowl with steep sides (taxes and regulations). Political forces are aligned to keep the sides of the bowl steep enough to trap the proletariat in the bowl, most never earning quite enough to escape in their lifetimes. If we flatten out the sides of the bowl, more workers become employers. The price of labor increases, and a larger portion of the society is uplifted balancing out the wealth inequality.