Free Market Vs Wealth Inequality

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I believe that both arguments 1 and 2 were very strong and it was difficult to choose between these two. The third argument made some good points as well, I believe that wealth inequality isn’t necessarily politically significant and that the free market benefits the whole of society. The problem with argument three is that I’m not entirely certain what they are arguing (and I also had a little difficulty reading the handwriting at points). It seemed that argument three’s argument was that the Government needs to intervene to prevent inequality, but the market provides the maximum benefit to all in society and if the government intervenes the free market will not be able to efficiently maximize economic growth which is bad for

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