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Final wish, multiply every bank balance by 0.5

Would this one unintentionally help reduce wealth disparity?

By a lot! It would also cut every overdrawn bank account by half :)

Unfortunately it's just "bank balance", so actual debts outside of that wouldn't be touched.

It would get worse. Cash reserves are for working class people; the rich mostly hold stocks which appreciate over time.

Divide every bank balance by zero

That's just a fancy way of saying "cut in half".

That’s just a fancy way of saying “halve.”

That's just a fancy way of saying "divide by 2."

that's just a fancy way of saying:

imagine you have two children and live in a system of gavelkind succession. now consider the share of one of the children. then forget the children and make that share the new bank balance