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Your lack of self awareness is incredible.

How are you yourself different from the vilified "rent seeker"?

Instead of consuming more value than I create, I create more value than I am compensated for. Because I derive my income from my work.

And thus you are seeking rent from those with more property than yourself.

Fantastic.

People who own yield bearing properties (e.g. landlords - not me) are extracting value from others.

You can spin that fact any way that you want but it's still a fact.

That's why I don't call it redistributive taxation. It's re-redistributive taxation.