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I think he's trying to make an analogy to the income tax systems. If people at restaurants shared the bill in the same way as people are taxed, then someone with a million $ income gets charged 100 times more than someone with a ten thousand $ income. If you look at a typical progressive tax system it's even more unbalanced. Then poor people eat for free, middle class people pay for some fraction of their meal, and the wealthy have to pay for the meals of hundreds of people.