You, Don Brayton, wrote:

>I have no problem with someone else having wealth as long
>as they can not use it either to coerce me or to protect themselves from
>retribution for fraud.
Well, that's the nub of the issue, I agree. If there were any prospect of
these conditions being met I would side with you. Unfortunately coercion
and distortion of power relations is exactly what concentrated wealth
does, as an attentive reading of our daily papers makes abundantly clear,
day in and day out. Your apparent proscription for society--a radical
laissez-faire economy--would only exacerbate this, I guarantee you.

y'r obdt. Svt.,

Tresy