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> Most of the time people are just fighting over scraps and the best they can hope for is some steady source of income that pays their rent and affords them som
by cvoss 3y ago
> Most of the time people are just fighting over scraps and the best they can hope for is some steady source of income that pays their rent and affords them some basic luxuries like visiting Las Vegas and watching a few acrobatic shows.
I'm sorry to react so strongly, but I think it's demeaning to suggest that the life condition you described is one of "fighting over scraps". It's also... (I'm struggling to find the right words) really entitled in a materialistic way to suggest (correct me if this is not what you suggest) that it's unfair that almost nobody can move from the average station to the station of uber-wealthy. Who is owed the life of opulence? And who owes it to them? And how many people actually aspire to this extreme wealth, vs. recognize that there is a heck of a lot more meaningful things to do with life than make money?
- climatologist 3y agoWhich part do you disagree with? Money is a way to control the masses and it has always been used that way. The technology currently exists to do away with all wealth disparities and achieve a true meritocracy wherein individual talents are developed to benefit everyone collectively but most people can not conceive of what such a world would look like so they chase money and end up miserable. In the grand scheme of things money is entirely meaningless, it's a bunch of numbers in databases.
- badpun 3y ago> The technology currently exists to do away with all wealth disparities and achieve a true meritocracy Can you name that technology?
- climatologist 3y agoGive every child a library and see what happens. It could be electronic or otherwise.
- hker999 3y agoThey play games and watch mindless YouTube videos. This isn't a very good argument.
- climatologist 3y agoI didn't say give them internet access. The internet is already too far gone down the drain to be salvaged.
- badpun 3y agoAren't there libraries everywhere already (in developed world at least)?
- climatologist 3y agoNot really.
- anigbrowl 3y agodemeaning to suggest that the life condition you described is one of "fighting over scraps" Nobody likes leaving the cave. GP is not suggesting people deserve to become super-wealthy, but is pointing out that it is very hard to get out of financial survival into thriving without considerable luck or an unusual degree of innovative ability and ready access to capital.