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?
Except that your idea of all being equal is incredibly hypocritical. Like CAR you define the ideal society within the context of your cushy lives in the USA. You don’t really want everyone to be equal because if you wanted to include everyone you would include all of the impoverished humans in the world. This means your standard would go down in a very drastic manner.
So really your utopia is build on a hypocritical foundation. If you took the however many billions of people on the planet and applied your principals then you would not live in a beautiful climate where you live… if you were lucky you may have an outhouse or a ditch to crap in. You may or may not have electricity. Your children would most likely be working a hell of alot harder then they do now.
I think that the equality statement that is bantered about is the biggest load of BS I see on this entire site.
Say it like it is… I love the idea of equality as long as I get my home in southern california, enjoy a pension, and get to enjoy freedoms and benefits that billions and billions will never ever see.
If the REAL EQUALITY you guys speak of were to be implemented over the entire planet, you would be quite sorry.
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Scaredy I will say that yes, it is sad that the middle class is withering away and that our politicians have no will at all to reverse that trend. The disparity has only increased regardless of who is in power. I don’t have any answers, I wish I did… however history always has shown that having the govt make the decisions about who gets what always ends poorly because those in or aligned with govt always took advantage of the situation creating the very class based society that was supposed to be avoided.
