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Proponents of what? Growing the pie isn't going to convince anyone who has a small slice of anything. Maybe you've never seen a pie before, but no matter how mu
by 9rx 2mo ago
Proponents of what? Growing the pie isn't going to convince anyone who has a small slice of anything. Maybe you've never seen a pie before, but no matter how much it grows by the angle of your slice remains the same. People don't care about how much absolute wealth they have. If they did they'd all be happy as even the peasants today are richer than the kings of yore. In reality, people are only concerned about having a smaller share of the total wealth than someone else. Those kings of yore, despite having less wealth, are still considered to have been better off as they held the large share of the pie.
- smallmancontrov 2mo agoAh, the "let them eat iPhones" argument. No, cool tech does not make up for the ruinous cost of health care, housing, and education vs median wages. Maslow's Hierarchy still exists. A system that fails to deliver food and shelter for a reasonable number of worked hours at a reasonable and available job is still a failure no matter how cool the Big Screen TVs are.
- win311fwg 2mo ago> A system that fails to deliver food and shelter for a reasonable number of worked hours at a reasonable and available job is still a failure If other jobs are not fruitful enough to provide food and shelter then the worker can simply go direct to producing food and shelter themselves. That baseline is always available. At least it is as long as you have land. That is where relative wealth inequality can quickly come to bite you. That is why nobody gives a shit about the pie growing. They only care about the pie having equally divided slices. These silly catchphrases you keep coming up with do nothing to change reality.