I grew up low class, and expected my life to be hard - only I didn’t process it as “hard”; it was just how life *was.* I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing minimum-wage physically-hard labor, and then getting pregnant. That was the plan, but more importantly-
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There’s a good chunk of people who would like to lower the wealth of the very rich even if this benefited nobody else, even if the wealth didn’t get redistributed at all!
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Comparison is the thief of joy
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People have a visceral, gut reaction against unfairness. I think there's a large divide between those who consider inequality to be inherently "unfair", and those who do not, to the point where it's difficult to even have a coherent conversation across that divide.
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My opinion is was Rousseau, claiming inequality was the root of all societal evils.
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That radical egalitarian notion is of course wrong. Below or above unjust and unfair inequality is mere existential inequality and it isn't 'wrong'. Difference and variety create inequality.
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Paying attention to the more fortunate is a big part of reality tv. I can't tolerate any of it for more than a minute or two. The entitlement is disgusting. The lack of perspective is ridiculous. It's all obscene. But you're right, people use that as a yardstick.
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Inequality is inherently wrong in a utilitarian sense due to the declining marginal utility of wealth. What else does "wrong" mean if not "more harmful than the alternative"? Some inequality may be a necessary evil like some killing or some pain, but it's still an evil
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