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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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@TheGinjeNinja
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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The Ginger Ninja
@TheGinjeNinja
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@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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@TheGinjeNinja
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.
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The Ginger Ninja
@TheGinjeNinja
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@Aella_Girl
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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@Aella_Girl
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@TheGinjeNinja
I'm not saying it's fine or fair, I'm saying that *inequality itself is not bad*. The idea of "Wherever we are, we can do better!" is great. But we seem to totally lack gratitude for how far we've come and that our children literally don't die from smallpox anymore.
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