Posted: Apr 11, 2013 7:23 am
Inequality of income is not a problem by itself.
The problem is when the lowest groups do not have the basics, through no fault of their own.
Would anyone have a problem with a system that rewarded the most talented and hard working (and even the luckiest or most in-demand) with fabulous wealth if at the same time even the poorest of the poor had a minimum standard of living that involved housing, healthy food, access to healthcare, and equality of education and opportunity?
It is not the gap that is the problem, it is the inability to provide the basics to the needy, and allow the talented but less privileged to earn fair reward, at the same time as massive resources are spent on things that should ideally be unnecessary or at least scaled back to a fraction of their current size, like the military, foreign aid, law enforcement, courts, prisons, subsidies, etc.
The problem is when the lowest groups do not have the basics, through no fault of their own.
Would anyone have a problem with a system that rewarded the most talented and hard working (and even the luckiest or most in-demand) with fabulous wealth if at the same time even the poorest of the poor had a minimum standard of living that involved housing, healthy food, access to healthcare, and equality of education and opportunity?
It is not the gap that is the problem, it is the inability to provide the basics to the needy, and allow the talented but less privileged to earn fair reward, at the same time as massive resources are spent on things that should ideally be unnecessary or at least scaled back to a fraction of their current size, like the military, foreign aid, law enforcement, courts, prisons, subsidies, etc.