Edit: I did not literally mean going to rich people’s houses and rob the money.
But to just pass a law that takes most of their money and redistributes it.
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Because the sheer organisation that would require is phenomenal, and incredibly easy to disrupt. Most people don’t really care about the wealth distribution itself, they just want to personally have money. The 1% can give select people money – ie pay them – to suppress the remainder of the 99%.
It also doesn’t help that the people who run the countries and thus the people who create the laws tend to be part of the 1%, or at least interested in maintaining the 1%’s wealth, and a large portion of the 99% are stupid enough to believe what the politicians say.
Basically, money + ignorance = corruption, and the developed world has a hell of a lot of money and a hell of a lot of ignorance. The 1% spend a lot of money on preventing the 99% rising up, and you gotta hand it to them, they do a damned good job. Indeed, despite the fact I’m being highly critical of the system right now, you and I both know that I’d never *actually* do anything about it, because that would be too inconvenient to me and I think it wouldn’t change anything.
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