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An unreachable tier of society indicates a fundamental social injustice. They're in the top 20% of wealth...not intelligence, or in any other factor making them
by theonemind 5y ago
An unreachable tier of society indicates a fundamental social injustice. They're in the top 20% of wealth...not intelligence, or in any other factor making them deserving of it. Some of them did work hard, and probably deserve it if you consider hard work deserving of it...but, some people worked harder and didn't make it, so it's not a 1-to-1 equation. So there's a huge element of luck, which is kind of like a slavery for the bottom 80%..just like, you're born with one skin color (luck), you're in the upper class, and own the unlucky people born with another skin color.
Generally, we try to equalize the brutal laws of nature and offer equality of opportunity and try to remove blind, dumb luck from human life...with health care, with insurance, with social equality...sometimes, we succeed, but this is a failure.
- defaultprimate 5y agoWho determines who deserves what?
- ianbutler 5y ago"if you consider hard work deserving of it" Do you mean to say people who do nothing deserve wealth?
- DarylZero 5y agoLOL where are these "people who do nothing"
- ianbutler 5y agoThere are multiple people I’ve known who do the bare minimum to continue their existence and from the ones I’ve known I’m sure they’d contribute nothing if they were able to. I don’t consider it a particularly valid way to live. There are a lot more who do try to make their lives better though.
- danaris 5y agoSo...the idle rich, then?
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- ianbutler 5y agoSure, free loaders are free loaders. Not sure why you think I wouldn’t uniformly apply that brush. They’re just as invalid in my world view, maybe more even because they have the easy means to do… anything beneficial really.
- DarylZero 5y ago>who do the bare minimum to continue their existence So not nothing. > I’m sure they’d contribute nothing if they were able So they're not even _able_ to do nothing.
- ianbutler 5y agoEffectively nothing. You’re splitting hairs.
- jwolfe 5y agoIt seems in context that they're saying that you may or may not consider the fact that you worked hard and then were heartily rewarded to mean that you deserved the result. Especially in the context of many many other people working just as hard and not getting the same result.
- ianbutler 5y agoThat makes more sense, it was more suggesting effort and result aren’t always directly causally connected even if people feel their hard work was what produced the result. Yeah that checks out in my experience.