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Why is income inequality bad anyway?

• titzer 9y ago
  Generally speaking, income inequality leads to social instability. In the limit, that means violent revolution.
  • himlion 9y ago
    That problem will be fixed once we get robot soldiers.
  • ue_ 9y ago
    I'd rather say that high income inequality leads to people realising class antagonism between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the synthesis of this conflict is Socialism.
    • titzer 9y ago
      Violent revolution is manifested throughout human history, before there was even a concept of Socialism. They were called "slave rebellions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion
      • ue_ 9y ago
        This is the point - it is class conflict, Marx took this into account in his materialist conception of history. The antagonism of proletarians and bourgeoisie is the modern manifestation of the class war; slave rebellions the ancient manifestation.