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In equality and laziness result in the inability to work at a high wage.
The living wage proposed is welfare, the dole
Bernie proposes a nation of Andy Capps
Exactly. If the government paid Hubby and me each $1000 a month in addition to our other sources of income (pension, etc.) I’d quit working. My daughter was talking to a woman once who believed the government should give everybody in the country a place to live and enough to eat all free. Daughter asked “why would I work if everything is provided free?” The woman could not comprehend that. She thought people would continue working to “contribute their share.” My daughter just laughed at her.
THIS.
Jordan Peterson -- who is, admittedly a clinical psychologist and not an economist -- has pointed out that it is a symptom of every system of production that 20% of the people will provide 80% of the value.
Karl Marx looked at "capitalism" and saw that 20% of the people owned about 80% of the stuff. He concluded that "capitalism" was flawed and needed to be replaced. If you look at the USSR, Red China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. you are likely to find that 20% of the people own about 80% of the stuff. This is just how systems of production work out.
Inequality and laziness aren't going away. And some people are just high achievers. The only way to attempt any sort of balance is to use violence to punish the high achievers. But even then we would still find that 20% of the people owned about 80% of the stuff -- but there would be "less stuff" because so many high achievers had been killed.
Even distribution is a myth. You cannot make a world of equality. But you can make a world of Freedom -- if you stay away from socialism.