> Piketty has argued persuasively that conflict, chaos, and tumult are historically among the primary drivers of equality. > fighters who would more properly be

> Piketty has argued persuasively that conflict, chaos, and tumult are historically among the primary drivers of equality. > fighters who would more properly be home rearranging this society toward more equal circumstances. My understanding was that the poster was implying that conflict, chaos, and tumult would promote equality. I agreed that I thought it would, but implied that it wasn't worth it. I'd take an unequal society where more people are prosperous, over an equal one where everyone is equally miserable. It seems to me there is a growing percentage of the public that want to throw it all away and start over, but I'd point out that for most of human history, most everywhere in the world, most people where either struggling to survive or living as slaves of someone or another. Neither is the case now, we're doing something right and I think a lot of people are just spoiled with how good it's been.