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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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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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But that story is sometimes quite validly based on facts and observations. It isn't imaginary just because it's based on our observations. I get dismissing 1st world problems, but when you're talking about the world's poorest you're often talking about life and death.

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I should have said this in my original tweet, but in one of my followup tweets I clarified that I meant the western world's concept of poverty, not third-world poverty.

9:43 PM · Apr 26, 2019

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It's often a matter of life and death there too sadly. I've seen people ration insulin, have to decide whether they want food or heat for their children. Meanwhile others have fortunes that can't be exhausted in many lifetimes. That doesn't seem fine to me.

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in the past, there wouldn't have been any insulin to ration. Those children would already be dead.

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That doesn't change much. Obviously the quality of life is gonna change with technological advancements but even before we get to the literal homeless we have people doing wild shit like rationing insulin, or starving themselves so their kids can eat