Even distribution

I keep hearing this term "Redistribution of wealth" thrown around a lot. I have been thinking about it. Capitalism will not work if everyone has the same amount of resources. It is the difference in resources that makes transactions happen.

If the world were all the same level, like flat, but round if you take my meaning, water would have nowhere to flow. We might all find ourselves in neck deep water.

One of the stories this weekend was a guy who is in the occupy protests complaining that the money he raised from donations was not being used in his area. That money was just vanishing in the bureaucracy. "They are the government now." meaning the people higher than he in the loose organization that has popped up to organize the protests. I believe this young man was experiencing one of the major drawbacks of "everyone gets the same amount of everything" kind of thinking. That is some people are more equal than others. Welcome to the real world.

There is no way to prevent one person or group from having more than another. There will always be inequality. This is how the universe works. There is this thing called gravity that causes things to clump together. The universe suddenly becomes lumpy. The lumps bang in to one another and you get bigger lumps. The lumps get big enough and the blow up or fall apart. That is simply how things work.