There are two kinds of income: the product of work and the product of investment. In some cases they're intermingled (like in the case of business owners who are involved in the operations of the business) but even then it's possible to estimate how much of the income is of each kind by hypothetically imagining separating the ownership role and the work role.
Income from investment is nothing more than a portion of wealth that was created by someone's work, but which is taken by owners simply because of the power that owners possess. To demonstrate this, we can note that investment income is directly transferrable into the work of other people and the products of their work, but requires no work on the part of the investor (sometimes the capital came from work, but the investment income did not). Furthermore, if investors didn't have power, they wouldn't receive any income. The reason I pay my landlord rent is because he has the power to kick me out; I pay him for permission to live here. That's the basic relationship in all investment income. Generally, it's not legit to take something that someone else has worked for simply because you have power over them, but that's not the biggest problem. The big problem is that investment income compounds over time. So, if one person owns a lot, and someone else doesn't own anything, it's easier for the person who owns a lot to expand that ownership and take even more in the future. As long as we think investment income is legit, inequality will continue to increase and spiral out of control. It's commendable if you've saved a pile of wealth entirely from working and haven't earned a cent from investments, but that's rarely the case. In today's vastly unequal world, most ownership is the product of past investment income.
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