Let us take a step back.
“It is therefore the greatest of blessings for a state that its members should possess a moderate and adequate property,” says Aristotle in his Politics. He was not wrong. Such a state, he proposes, has the strength to keep the rich in order and to ensure that the poor are not abandoned. Moderate property, widely spread, works as the national foundation you need.
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