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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 7965283" data-attributes="member: 28487">There are many issues with the scenario above but the biggest is that the elite all control the same kind of assets and their wealth is interchangeable. in reality some people a the top have wealth that depends on feeding the masses. The Walton family that own Walmart for instance. Remove the masses and their wealth disappears. That is one issue.Now, suppose that you have an initial population of 1 million and 75% of the wealth is owned by 10,000. 100 of that 10,000 owns 50%. Now remove the million and then what? Does the 100 of the new elite remove the 9,900 new poor? 100 is not a viable breeding population. If not, what happens when that 10k breeds out to a million with a similar wealth distribution as before the great cull.One is only elite in the current order, remove or change that order and ones elite status might come into question.This reminds of comments by players of MMO type games like World of Tanks  where people whine about matchmaking and how they would be better off if they were playing only against similarly skilled players never seeming to realise that if there are so few of this class of players that it would not be viable for the company to run a separate server for the elite and if they were only playing elite players they might not be as elite as they think.</blockquote>