[PavlovsCat]

> unprecedented equality

Right. Which is why when I kill someone, I go to jail, and when George Bush attacks a country, the crickets chirp.

> tearing it down because it is the Establishment and tearing down the Establishment is cool is counterproductive.

More importantly, it's a straw man.

edit: if anyone is seriously debating that's a straw man, use your words.

[bprieto]

unprecedented equality != perfect equality

Unprecedented equality means that in a capitalistic (Western) society almost everybody eats a hot meal everyday day, has free time to enjoy, has an assortment of clothes, furniture and things, has a place to live with running water and electricity and appliances that run with said electricity.

All things that only the richest people could dream of enjoying just a couple of centuries ago.

[PavlovsCat]

Okay, and what about equality before the law and other such things? "Be happy you have a home, shut up", or what?