im wondering if we could all agree that it would be best for society if the wealth were generally spread around. I don’t mean that it should be taken from you personally but…just setting up our ideal society, from scratch, can we all agree it would be best if it tends to have wealth distributed about, and not concentrated intensely at the very top, and not with very few people in the middle, and lots and lot of very broke people?
I think most normal people would say, yeah, that would be a good form for society to take…there should be lots of people earning a decent living in the middle, right? that would be a good type of society…
not sure how to get there…and people can argue reasonably about how to get there…but is everyone in agreement that that’s a good goal? i can see reaosnable people saying, no, let the losers lose big, the winners take all, and fuck the weaklings of society. let them eat from dumpsters if they cannot figure out how to play the new game…
Sometimes I wonder whether we are starting from different perspectives of the type off orm society should take.
cause when people argue let the “free market” (or what passes for one hereabouts nowadays) move wealth where it’s gonna go…I’m betting it gets more and more concentrated at the top…
and if that’s a bad thing…
should we let the machine just keep moving inexorably int he same direction?
