Should we rethink equality?

[Stratego]

[Precocity]

I believe that if people focused more on what they can achieve and assets they can earn and less on what others have that they want to take away, they wouldn't have a problem with envy consuming their soul.

[Homer]

[The Dharma Bum]

If an individual have far more material resources than they can possibly utilize then clearly there has been a misallocation of those resources on the part of society.

The society in question would probably be best served with a more effective distribution policy.

Another issue is there a vast differential in power between the average individual and members of a cartel that literally owns the entire infrastructure that holds society together. How can the average person be said to be in anyway equal to the people who belong to the business cartel that controls this territory? They simply aren't, because one group totally dominates the other.

The result of this state of affairs: Wage slavery. Employment can't said to be voluntary when the alternative is poverty and starvation. This state of affairs is really not much different than the previous version of slavery our society depended on. Attempts to reduce "welfare" payments are the ethical equivalent of beating a slave with a whip to make him work.

[eynon81]

my dog and Boo are cuter than Zuckerbergs' so I have that going for me.

although he gets to hunt for his meat, which is f**k awesome.

[eynon81]

[Hyperion]

[Stratego]

[a777pilot]

It is the equality of opportunity not, repeat, not outcome.

We do not need to rethink anything on equality. Envy and jealousy maybe, but not equality.

[exploited]