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Envy is a source of disutility. So is pooping in a field because you lack a flush toilet. If you feel that forcing more people to poop in the field in order to
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
Envy is a source of disutility. So is pooping in a field because you lack a flush toilet.
If you feel that forcing more people to poop in the field in order to reduce feelings of envy among wealthy Americans is a good thing, make that argument.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> If you feel that forcing more people to poop in the field in order to reduce feelings of envy among wealthy Americans is a good thing, wealthy Americans aren't the ones facing relative deprivation (which is why the reference upthread was to "poor Americans"), nor is it a problem only in America -- inequality (with a strong and persistent ethnic basis to the inequality) is something that neoliberal international trade regimes promote on both the more developed and less developed sides of trade arrangements. See, e.g., World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Amy Chua (2003).