This top one percent—3 million people—certainly cannot purchase all the goods that the poorest 180 million Americans would be capable of purchasing had our society a more equal distribution of wealth.

位于顶端的这百分之一——300万人——当然无法买下最穷的1.8亿美国人在我们的社会有了更公平的财富分配时所能购买的全部商品。

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say, "Well let's require an equal distribution of income and wealth."

让我们平均分配收入和财富

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Looked from the sociological Angle of view, since any society cannot achieve the wealth absolutely the equal distribution, that we should seek one kind of reasonable disparity.

从社会学的视角看，既然任何社会都做不到财富的绝对平均分配，那么，我们就应该寻求一种合理的差距。

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Like communism, the doctrine of socialism demands state ownership and equal distribution of wealth.

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