Not at all what I meant. I'm proud to live in a capitalist society with a safety net. You can take a chance on a business knowing that you have limited liability and food stamps awaiting you at the "bottom" rather than something much worse.
I merely meant to imply that large amounts of wealth make a small (negligible?) improvement to the top .001%, and that much smaller amounts (like food stamps) can mean the difference between life and death to the poor. The productivity gains (due to dampening entrepreneurs' risk aversion) caused by refactoring wealth from the top to the bottom are another pro-transfer argument I meant to reference.
