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This doesn’t make sense… people have always been able to use their time, effort, and resources against someone else? Since the beginning of society I imagine.
by MichaelZuo 1y ago
This doesn’t make sense… people have always been able to use their time, effort, and resources against someone else?
Since the beginning of society I imagine.
- amelius 1y agoYes, but whether that becomes a problem to society depends on a number of parameters. One of them is the existing level of wealth inequality.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoIf someone is grinding you down… what does it matter whether they are 10x or 100x wealthier? Even perfect equals can wreck each other’s lives completely, in legal ways too, if they commit their all to it.
- amelius 1y agoYou are looking for extremes, whereas I am merely looking at it from the average behavior of wealthy people. If there is a large wealth inequality that means that the relatively poor will simply have a smaller piece of the cake and the wealthy growing their wealth will have a larger impact on the poor, percentage-wise. Now, if that growth is only due to hard work, then you can't really argue against that; however, if that growth is partially due to "wealth abuse", then that's a different matter.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoSure, your very unlikely to ever encounter such a situation… But any given wealthy person you encounter in life is also very unlikely to be so malicious?