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All we have to do to have wealth equality is to overcome pride, greed, envy, and sloth. The median wealth may be much lower as a result (since a lot of the thi

All we have to do to have wealth equality is to overcome pride, greed, envy, and sloth. The median wealth may be much lower as a result (since a lot of the things that have made us wealthy as the species are driven by pride, greed, and envy) but we may be happier as a people...

datavirtue 2y ago
Unintuitively, we used to do this with a 90% tax.
deeThrow94 2y ago
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mapt 2y ago
NOT to create an economically equal nation. Just a nation with as much economic inequality as the 60's, or even the 90's. A type of society in living memory, which is today beyond the imagination of policymakers.
- giantg2 2y ago
  Certain ethnic groups might disagree with how equal the past was.
  - mapt 2y ago
    In terms of social demographic equality, I'm explicitly not saying that it was equal, just "more equal". The differences between a white minimum wage worker and a black minimum wage worker in the 60's were significant, but... A minimum wage worker in the 60's, whatever their race, is a hell of a lot closer to indentured/enslaved servitude than to a billionaire. "In this America, the three wealthiest men (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg) own more wealth than the bottom half of our society – over 165 million people." Our political system appears to be aimed squarely at redistributing all human agency and happiness into one utility monster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster
    - giantg2 2y ago
      "A minimum wage worker in the 60's, whatever their race, is a hell of a lot closer to indentured/enslaved servitude than to a billionaire." That's true for any time period.
logicchains 2y ago
>All we have to do to have wealth equality is to overcome pride, greed, envy, and sloth If we overcame envy nobody would care about wealth inequality.
- autobodie 2y ago
  The issue has nothing to do with envy and everything to do with dignity, which will always be a prerequisite for civility.

datavirtue 2y ago

Unintuitively, we used to do this with a 90% tax.

deeThrow94 2y ago

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mapt 2y ago

NOT to create an economically equal nation. Just a nation with as much economic inequality as the 60's, or even the 90's. A type of society in living memory, which is today beyond the imagination of policymakers.

giantg2 2y ago
Certain ethnic groups might disagree with how equal the past was.
- mapt 2y ago
  In terms of social demographic equality, I'm explicitly not saying that it was equal, just "more equal". The differences between a white minimum wage worker and a black minimum wage worker in the 60's were significant, but... A minimum wage worker in the 60's, whatever their race, is a hell of a lot closer to indentured/enslaved servitude than to a billionaire. "In this America, the three wealthiest men (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg) own more wealth than the bottom half of our society – over 165 million people." Our political system appears to be aimed squarely at redistributing all human agency and happiness into one utility monster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster
  - giantg2 2y ago
    "A minimum wage worker in the 60's, whatever their race, is a hell of a lot closer to indentured/enslaved servitude than to a billionaire." That's true for any time period.

logicchains 2y ago

>All we have to do to have wealth equality is to overcome pride, greed, envy, and sloth If we overcame envy nobody would care about wealth inequality.

autobodie 2y ago
The issue has nothing to do with envy and everything to do with dignity, which will always be a prerequisite for civility.