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I don't understand why inequality is inherently bad. It seems fine to me. Force is bad, and sometimes inequality is created through force - but inequality is not *in and of itself* bad. I often (not always) interpret people who dislike inequality as envious and dissatisfied.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Apr 29, 2020

I often hear people talking about inequality without acknowledging that the bottom poorest percentages have been doing the best by several metrics then they have throughout the rest of human history. But no, not good enough - other people are doing even better and that's not ok.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Apr 29, 2020

Again to clarify - in the cases where force is used (and there are a LOT of these, mostly by the government) this can significantly increase inequality, and thus inequality is a sign of oppression of the lower class. This "inequality-by-force" is definitely bad.

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It makes no sense to say that a system that's a binary choice between working or starving isn't predicated on force

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since when in the entirety of human history, down to our primal ancestors, did creatures not have to exert work in order to eat?

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Yes but the before Capitalism it wasn't necessary to earn wages to survive. All the previous systems were better in that sense and much less individualistic

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@danzyl66

If you want to maintain the same quality of life that our ancestors had in regards to "amount you have to work for same quality of food" or "lifespan", or "shelter," then it takes much less work today to achieve that than it used to.

11:23 PM · Apr 29, 2020

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And that's why the system has its upsides but the way it's distributed is the problem