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> History has shown time and again that massive inequality is a huge barrier to maximizing the productivity of all of a society's members.

Has it? Restricting what opportunities individual people are permitted to follow would I assume both reduce productivity and increase inequality, but that doesn't have the inequality being the cause of the lower than theoretically possible productivity.



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