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Equality for all is much better than improvement for the 1% and misery for everyone else. Don't be dense. You know there are happy mediums. * Read your Wilkin
by skylan_q 10y ago
Equality for all is much better than improvement for the 1% and misery for everyone else.
Don't be dense. You know there are happy mediums.
* Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the political and economic issue that will shape the 21st century.*
I've read Pickett. Equality is horrifying. Eastern Europe is the result. The handicapper general is terrifying.
It's the end to any human greatness.
- vidarh 10y agoEastern Europe didn't have equality. It had less equality than Western Europe and the US - the party elite basically carved up their countries as fiefdoms. To blame equality for problems caused by systems that never implemented anything like equality is quite bizarre.
- skylan_q 10y agoIt wasn't real socialism canard. …the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union who were walking down the street and one of them says: Have we really achieved full communism? Is this it? Is this now full communism? The other one said: Oh no, things are gonna get a lot worse.
- vidarh 10y agoLet us assume it was socialism for the sake of argument: It doesn't matter. There provably wasn't equality. So whether or not what they had was socialism (which, by the way, does not require equality in any case) is entirely irrelevant to the argument.