Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
I find it profound because it highlights that many people think that wanting somebody else's money is not excess beyond what they should while wanting to keep what one has earned is considered excess.

I certainly never thought of it that way until I saw what Sowell said. But I come from the Bernie Sanders side of things, where I used to think it was totally normal that wanting to take from others was philanthropic and moral (as long as it's filtered as "fair" and "helping the poor") while wanting to keep one's own was greed.
A few weeks ago or so, I mentioned that I'd previously endured a lot of suffering behind the idea that everyone was equal. This seems like the same type of deal for you.