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
Right - but if there were no rich people, how much would they be complaining? I'm not saying that they shouldn't be complaining, I just feel super sensitive to the fact that we're not experiencing an *absolute* level of suffering, we're experiencing one that comes out of a story.
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But neither of the above two examples are about a story, they’re about literal physical differences in what happens to the poor vs the rich right now that ought to be fixed. The fact that the “rich way” also exists just illustrates that often these benefits could be had by many.
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(e.g. a cash cushion via UBI, or prison/police reform, yada yada)
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