Brown Motion

I remember my dad getting temporarily laid off as an unwilling victim of a walk out by the then popular worker's right activist union.  As a counter point to the capitalist ideology there has been the socialist or communist movement and it led to significant wars in recent history. At the heart of the communist movement is the notion of a Union; that of securing the vote of the downtrodden and giving them a fair share of the available pie.  To an extent that philosophy works to ensure that the greedy have a check point on what they can amass.  Today in the western world the gap between executive pay and the average worker is often used as a metric to highlight that point.  In America it is the worst with approx ratio of 450 times. That said free enterprise thrives when there is a chance of maximum reward.  To that degree any artificial restriction on the flow of money either through taxation or social policies that hinder progress are an anathema to the ent...