| > do you feel inferior to rich people? do you feel superior to poor people? what hogwash. i reject this axiom that inequality is bad. > people don't hate inequality - they hate unfairness. You seem to contradict yourself in the span of two paragraphs. Inequality is OK (according to you) if it is fair. So rich people are superior to poor people? (It’s not about “feeling” inferior in any case. It’s about having enough money to live. And yes, the interests of the rich often work against the interests of the poor in such a way that the lives of the poor gets to be more and more difficult.) Or maybe we’re just seeing unfair inequality right now? Well then the distinction doesn’t matter much in any case. When was the last time that inequality was fair? Rich people are created off the backs of relatively poor people, i.e. the working class. To a large degree, rich people need other people to be relatively poor in order to maintain their wealth. Why do you think that businesses hate when workers organize for better pay and conditions? I guess they should be fine with it if the inequality was “fair”… Bah. Maybe my reading comprehension is off. |
Some people have higher earning potential than others. Does that make them superior?