but the reality is, inequality exists today, inequality has always existed, and inequality will always exist. Why? Because people are simply different. People have different motivations, different skillsets, different temperaments, different passions, different work ethics… essentially, everyone is different. As such, why does it make sense that everyone would be equal? It doesn’t. There are yet others whose only skill is to sit around and wait for their welfare checks.
I fixed it.
It was not all that long ago when Edwardian England showed the huge disparity between the wealthy and the working class. Victorian era industrialization eventually fostered a good sized middle class of merchants, but it was the freedom of the American spirit of invention and entrepreneurial opportunity that really created a booming middle class.
Increasingly, that entrepreneuralism is choked in fees, restrictions and regulations. The merchant class is also being choked with fees and regulations. The middle class is rapidly disappearing in the United States as more and more people drop down into the lower economic strata of the working class abyss.
It is interesting to see that the “green” economy, sustainable development, climate change all have the aim of putting the middle class back into the lower class box. Supposedly, the middle class lifestyle has too great of a footprint on the environment to be sustainable. Certainly with the third world’s standard of living being raised, the European and American standard of living has to be reoriented downward to a less consumptive level for sustainability. It is not possible for the third world to rise, without the industrial world dropping back.
We are going backward to the Victorian era and perhaps the Edwardian era. The middle class will be a very small sector. The working class will support the wealthy once again.
Just look at gas prices, food prices, utility rates and taxes. Inflation is moving the middle class rapidly downward. Look at unemployment and debt - more downward pressure forces. The socialists, fabian greens, globalists all want what we see happening -——> a two class system.
Income inequality is the basis for the desire to work harder.
Income Disparity is the way a society keeps score of who is the most fit to survive, just ask any highly paid athlete.
BTW, are the highest paid athletes the most highly paid workers in the World? On an hourly basis, of course.