Is the higher income inequality gets, the more bad it is? As in; is inequality fundamentally or inherently a bad thing?
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Once again, the left isn't bitching about inequality inherently, it's just short hand for "the rich are screwing the poor".
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If you go on TED there was a show about how every single bad thing you can think of in society, and even land, was linked...
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inequality is unavoidable; there is according to some a shared existence we should strive for where all have access to enough.
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1) it's not a good vs bad question. It's about - what are the consequences when the gap gets extremely wide
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3) at the extreme, amount of wealth concentrated at top is de-linked from level of value generated by its holders
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4) If gap is wide & standard of living & basic security poor, discontent will build until "intolerable" - civil unrest follows
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I'm capitalist (for real) but capitalism needs rules & guardrails otherwise drifts 2 extremes like uncontrolled nuclear reaction