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• ‟ International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

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• ‟ I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.

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• ‟ The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

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• ‟ I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

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• ‟ As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

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