But this is nonsense: what we want to know is what is the wealth after we have changed the distribution: only then can we try to work out whether we would like to change it some more.

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The second reason is that we do not want to give excessive wealth to our progeny.

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They have entirely ignored almost all of the things we do to change the distribution of income and wealth: they have measured them both before what we do to change them rather than what we want to know, after we have and thus what more do we need to do.

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Instead, suffering from a lack of what we want with no avenue to get what we want, we go to war in order to forcibly take that which would otherwise reach us through voluntary, mutually wealth-enhancing exchange.

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