[legulere]

Extreme material inequality can't be explained by some people performing better, so it's pretty obvious that it is unjust. How can unjust distribution of the material wealth be moral?

How can you morally justify that some people have to work more than 40 hours per week to be able to barely scrape by, while others can just enjoy their lives luxuriously without working at all.

Oh and in fact, poor people in western societies today have it worse than 20, 30 years ago.

[jamesblonde]

How extreme can material inequality get before it's a problem? Well the Walton family have the same amount of money (wealth) as the bottom 160 million Americans. How much more extreme does it have to get before it doesn't become the issue?

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2013/dec/08/o...

[posterboy]

Today, money is immaterial. Your argument, as poignant as it may be, doesn't follow.

[jamesblonde]

Money is immaterial?!? As Homer Simpson once said (to his brain): "money can be exchanged for goods and services" - like healthcare, education, important stuff....

[posterboy]

> immaterial

> 1. Having no matter or substance.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immaterial

[jamesblonde]

Pedantic and pathetic. I clarified what I meant by money, wealth.

[posterboy]

which is not any less abstract and immaterial. There is no unit of wealth you could compare, or if there is, I'd like to know.