(12-02-2021, 07:12 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(12-02-2021, 07:05 PM)mikesez Wrote: I agree that total equality would be a very bad thing.
But that doesn't mean that very high levels of inequality are a good thing now does it?

Do you think "high levels" of inequality are a bad thing? Why?  Do you have some standard of inequality or amount of inequality you would be willing to accept?

A highly unequal society is unstable and prone to revolution.
So you're asking the wrong question. Our society is already unequal enough that if you are not a billionaire, you basically have no voice. The question is how much inequality all of us non-billionaires will accept before trying to overturn things, whether via organized violent revolt or civil disobedience or lawlessness. And no one really knows the answer.

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