Inequality in itself seems mostly fine to me? Like, the poorest people today live lives with access to better stuff than literally kings of the past. That is fucking incredible. But add in people doing better than us and we quickly get not okay
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Your model of poverty is incredibly bad if you think that being poor today is *better* than being a king in the past.
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Obviously there's a level of poverty that's probably worse than being a king in the past, especially in third-world countries. But we have access to a huge variety of food, our kids actually survive out of infancy now. Poor people still have refrigerators!
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I don't think you've thought this through. the poorest people on earth are starving and dying in the dirt. they live in tents in the desert in refugee camps.
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In a follow up tweet I clarify that I don't mean all poor people, especially in third-world countries. I mean the level of lifestyle that's colloquially referred to as 'poor' in first world countries.
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Are you saying the poor are ungrateful when they push for access to things like access to education and healthcare?
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No, I'm saying that inequality itself is not inherently bad. If we could reduce the entire world to the same level of extreme poverty, we'd get rid of inequality but it would still be terrible. I'd prefer at least some of us get to enjoy wealth.
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Better stuff like what? Cause I've seen poor people eating out of the trash. And the scientific advancement of a society is a poor excuse for abandoning fairness. This isn't a good take.
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I'm trying to say that 'fairness' is not absolute. I'm saying that often we can be happy until we see someone else doing better than us. I'm not saying we *should* be happy, only that I like when we're aware that our sense of injustice comes out of a story we tell ourselves.
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