You know, I don’t think most people care about the inequality so much as the abject misery of being at the bottom of that equation. I kinda wouldn’t care how many yachts a rich buffoon has if there weren’t so many starving desperate people, it’s just the optics are wholly awful for these ghouls in the world where cruelty and greed are so rampant that it’s inevitable even the crumbs are sucked from those who need them the most.
I would kind of care that there is blatant division between people’s worth as human beings depending on how much money they possess.
There is a deep equitable drive between human beings, we want fairness and equality as a matter of who we are as a species. Moderate differences in standard of living are tolerable, but social discrepancies over a certain limit unravels the fabric of our human connection.
In a way, capitalism turns us into monsters, predating on one another. There is no lowest common level of comfort that could ever undo that type of break with who we are, because we are more than the arbitrary division the system creates. We are creatures with dignity and a sense of justice.
If I make one dollar for every million you make, we haven’t “both gotten richer”.
Certainly, my evaluation lacks the depth of considering the system as a whole. Just saying that individually if we could make it so the bottom of the equation wasn’t so desperate relatively it would be okay for wealthy people to own ostentatious things, but you’re right, capitalism run rampant makes the situation inevitable
You know, I don’t think most people care about the inequality so much as the abject misery of being at the bottom of that equation. I kinda wouldn’t care how many yachts a rich buffoon has if there weren’t so many starving desperate people, it’s just the optics are wholly awful for these ghouls in the world where cruelty and greed are so rampant that it’s inevitable even the crumbs are sucked from those who need them the most.
I would kind of care that there is blatant division between people’s worth as human beings depending on how much money they possess.
There is a deep equitable drive between human beings, we want fairness and equality as a matter of who we are as a species. Moderate differences in standard of living are tolerable, but social discrepancies over a certain limit unravels the fabric of our human connection.
In a way, capitalism turns us into monsters, predating on one another. There is no lowest common level of comfort that could ever undo that type of break with who we are, because we are more than the arbitrary division the system creates. We are creatures with dignity and a sense of justice.
If I make one dollar for every million you make, we haven’t “both gotten richer”.
Certainly, my evaluation lacks the depth of considering the system as a whole. Just saying that individually if we could make it so the bottom of the equation wasn’t so desperate relatively it would be okay for wealthy people to own ostentatious things, but you’re right, capitalism run rampant makes the situation inevitable
I agree. I’d much rather be poor in Norway than in the US.