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> people don’t actually care about absolute inequality People care about fairness. Hell, even monkeys care about fairness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU
by erichocean 6y ago
> people don’t actually care about absolute inequality
People care about fairness. Hell, even monkeys care about fairness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
Extreme income inequality is unfair. Jeff Bezos is not 1,000,000,000% "more worthy" of wealth than Richard Feynman—and everyone knows it. Very little about financial capitalism is fair.
- anonuser123456 6y agoPeople care about where they sit in their local monkey pile, not global. That is, they care about their position relative to their neighbor. If they feel their prospects for the future are good and they are doing as well or better than their neighbor, they are generally happy. John Q. public could care less about Jeff Bezos unless they feel he is part of the 'theft' group listed in my original comment. People like winners that win fairly. I doubt Feynman would have cared either. He was playing a different game.