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Wait, if inequality is bad, then isn't it a good thing that the rest of the world is being lifted out of poverty? When in all of human history has this ever hap
by malvosenior 8y ago
Wait, if inequality is bad, then isn't it a good thing that the rest of the world is being lifted out of poverty? When in all of human history has this ever happened before? Seems like we're actually at a high point in time for most of the world's population.
Also, 2008 is a ridiculiously short time period to be looking back on and saying things are going down hill. For all intents and purposes we're still in the same time window we were in 2008. World history happens over decades and centuries, not 11 years.
- petermcneeley 8y ago> Wait, if inequality is bad, then isn't it a good thing that the rest of the world is being lifted out of poverty? If the middle classes of the western countries are destroyed in order to make this happen then no this is not a good thing at all. The result of that is effectively feudalism.
- malvosenior 8y agoDo you think the billions of people lifted out of poverty would feel the same way?
- petermcneeley 8y agoHow do you think the struggling middle class feels? You think they feel the same way about this "deal"?
- scottLobster 8y agoThey would after a generation or two when they discovered just how low their ceiling is, along with the rest of of the destroyed middle class