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{{DES | des = Is insufficient to reduce inequality, and often used as a distraction.  Everybody has equal opportunity in a lottery, but the end result is one rich person and many others who are poorer.  We shouldn't manage society to concentrate wealth, but rather to spread it. | show=}}
 
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I invite libertarians to play the Equal Opportunity Game.  It is just like musical chairs, except that it has roughly a half million players.  The winner gets to be a billionaire!  What fabulous opportunity!  What libertarian could object to that?
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But wait: what about the losers?  It doesn't matter how hard they've trained, all but one of the half million will be losers.  Obviously that makes them lazy and worthless, so their payoff will be a life of poverty.  What libertarian could object to that?
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Now, let's make the game mandatory and call it capitalism.  Sure, everybody is coerced into playing it to make a living, but it's capitalism!  What libertarian could object to that?
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Anybody who suggests changing the payoffs, even to make the results a thousand millionaires instead, is obviously a [[socialist]] [[Redistribution|redistributionist]].  Suggesting that there should be a middle class is obviously absurd and worthy of contempt because the market is always right.
 
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