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Wealth equality is not a desirable goal. Optimizing absolute standards of living is a much better target and inevitably allows for some people to have better li
by renewiltord 1y ago
Wealth equality is not a desirable goal. Optimizing absolute standards of living is a much better target and inevitably allows for some people to have better lives than others. This obsession with other people's things has always been known to be a societal detriment. Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
- nancyminusone 1y agoNeither shalt thou steal. Very difficult to believe that those handful of people with almost all the clams didn't get them by not robbing you.
- renewiltord 1y agoThat's the mistake, isn't it? Like many hard to believe things, it is nonetheless true. Stephen King wrote books a lot of people like, and a lot of people were willing to give him money for that. He didn't rob them for it. He just happened to write a book a lot of people like. Steph Curry is far wealthier than the median American, let alone the 10th percentile. Who did he rob by landing 3 pointers better than anyone else? Perhaps Taylor Swift is the thief for singing in a way a lot of people like. Must be an Eleventh Commandment or something.