3 ms·

> I would rather live in a world with a 10x Musk and no homeless people than a more equal world like the current one but with no billionaires. It would be nice

• doctorpangloss 2y ago
  It isn’t very charitable if you to purposefully misread an obvious rhetorical device. It made perfect sense to me. One POV is you’re proving the point: people feel much more strongly about exacting vengeance against antagonist celebrities than helping people generally. They’ll of course say the opposite in worthless Internet comments.
  • Eddy_Viscosity2 2y ago
    > purposefully misread You may want to follow your own advice in reading my first response. People feel strongly about inequality period. It's well established social fact that people's happiness and stress are tied to relative measure of success/status/access to resources etc. It also historically true that greater inequality leads to social instability. Partly because of the first point, but mostly because this top cadre of people are over-powered and will, human nature being what it is, use that power to exploit those with the least power until we're back to a point where there are a whole bunch of very poor people struggling to survive. So it may be nice to think there could be an option of having supersized inequality (e.g. a bunch of 10x Elons) AND have everyone above the poverty line but the fundamentals of people and society mean that super-inequality is simply incapable with a state in which all of worlds poorest can thrive.