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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Replying to @Aella_Girl
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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Replying to @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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Replying to @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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Replying to @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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Replying to @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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Replying to @TheGinjeNinja
in the past, there wouldn't have been any insulin to ration. Those children would already be dead.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
So your bar for a fine/fair society is anything above absolute squalor and a really early death, despite there being solutions available?
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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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Replying to @Aella_Girl
That's not how your words came across unfortunately. Saying, "Do you ever stop to think about to think about how far we've come, and how often we take it for granted?" would've worked. Taking about inequality being fine and how the poor live better than Kings seems out of touch.
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