When you hear a diatribe about income inequality, you can bet that you’re listening to a left-winger describe what he believes is the inevitable result of economic freedom.

With the classic terminology of Karl Marx, he will describe a society in which wealth becomes unsustainably concentrated and the middle class is constantly squeezed out of existence between the owners of capital and the proletariat.

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