(12-02-2021, 08:31 PM)mikesez Wrote:

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

I haven’t gone full tilt on the political thing.  But I can see that this social justice thing has driven a wedge into our nation more than anything I’ve ever witnessed.  Perhaps you or others have seen more being older.  But if what I’m seeing today with all this social justice [BLEEP], vaccine requirements, electric car pumping, pay people to stay home and not work and so on.. isn’t basis or cause for a revolution, then I don’t know what is. Personally, I don’t think we’re there.  I hope we don’t get there.  Hopefully with the mid terms and 2024 we won’t have to see.

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