The chart resembles what you'd get if you had rich people in a coin-flipping tournament and you showed the winners, those who got more than 50% heads.

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"Normally you have to go to ten dinners with these rich people before you can ask about a donation, " says Yau.

FORBES: The World's Richest People

Suppose you take money from rich people and spread it around?

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All these improvements were brought to you by people who got rich along the way -- and so will the next wave of improvements after that.

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Which it might well be in terms of how much cash you can squeeze out of the rich people.

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At this point you might ask: Where in the world have rich people willingly paid more taxes?

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And you know, nobody expected to get fabulously rich, although it was great if people got rich.

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