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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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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.

9:27 PM · Apr 26, 2019

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Nobody is arguing for equality in the sense of making everyone poor. The issue is that wages haven't grown in decades while the richest have gotten much richer. American life is more precarious and more expensive than it was on the recent past and the trend leads to a scary place

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I think this article about hierarchical structures interacting with automation and climate change is pretty good at outlining the issues with capitalism moving forward. jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-f