There are proper and improper uses of tools. A hammer is properly used to drive a nail and improperly used to smash someone's head. Money is also a tool. It is properly used as a way to exchange goods for labour and a way to save value for later use. Money has an improper use too: to accumulate the power to coerce others into relinquishing their money.
The fact that someone has accumulated some wealth doesn't mean they should be able to do whatever they want with it. We can all agree that smashing someone's head with a hammer is wrong. One's *ownership* of the hammer is irrelevant. Why then should we think that using wealth to take money from others is okay?
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