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.
"Normally you have to go to ten dinners with these rich people before you can ask about a donation, " says Yau.
Suppose you take money from rich people and spread it around?
This is another example of soak the rich and people you demonize with higher taxes for redistribution.
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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.
But if you are just doing what the competition is advertising where rich people gather what edge do you have?
Which it might well be in terms of how much cash you can squeeze out of the rich people.
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You know, maybe people dying because rich westerners think speculation is immoral, however beneficial it might be.
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The benevolence of the rich even funds people like you, who have spent their careers sheltered from any effort at profit-seeking as you instead regulate, inculcate the next generation with your views, and defend bankrupts.
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And the bargain that the Chinese leadership offers to the Chinese people is you can get rich, you can lead a reasonably decent life, just keep your nose out of politics or your nose gets cut off.
At this point you might ask: Where in the world have rich people willingly paid more taxes?
And you know, nobody expected to get fabulously rich, although it was great if people got rich.
You can check out this data, straight from the IRS website, showing how those evil rich people paid much more to the IRS after Reagan cut their tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent in the 1980s.
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To narrow the income gap between rich and poor, we must increase the power gap between those who govern and you, the American people.
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