why should everyone be VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY worried about how much wealth another has?

Question

shd everyone be VERY [x 10] worried about how much wealth others hav, because money is political power? and a super hyper extreme range of power & powerlessness is tyranny, oppression, corruption, theft, slavery, unliberty, unfreedom, undemocracy, state terrorism, sadism, & extreme violence, ever-escalating, between power-full & power-less?

we KNOW extreme range of money/power is unjust, bc we know that one person cannot work much harder than another PER HOUR [& differences in gifts of nature are not in justice, in logic, to be rewarded - pay justly compensates only LOSS - time, energy, etc]

we KNOW that injustice causes violence, because money is good for almost everything, including all necessities, so theft of earnings is the greatest injury - we know that injustice causes violence, because we know what would happen if a govt took 90% of earnings off 90% of ppl

we KNOW injustice and violence HAVE been escalating for 1000s of yrs - we KNOW we have bombpower to kill all life

Answer 1

Your intellectual question does not take away the existance, the near universality, of envy.

There is not a lot of evidence that someone at the bottom of the pyramind who has less and makes less is more apt to be a criminal, to explosively use envy to generate theft or violence.

A culture based on personal honor or a subculture in which boys are not raised by their fathers is much more likely to breed theft and violence than mere unfair social circumstances and envy as the motive.

Answer 2

Wealth does tend to lead to power and power does tend to corrupt.

Even if wealth was evenly distributed, power would remain unequally distributed because no system of government can sucessfully decentralize power. Even in a perfect marxist world, you would still have power centers and corruption at those centers.

Wealth and power can be used in any number of ways. While corruption is more dangerous when it is combined with power, I don't know if it is more regular.

Wealth is divided fairly evenly among various ideologies. The political economy provides significant protection against many forms of run away wealth. While wealth disparity causes some violence it doesn't necessarily explain increases in conflict any better than something like increases in technology

Answer 3

Money is not simply created as the result of work per hour, but also as the result of planning and creating some kind of benefit to the masses.

If one person creates an organization that provides benefit to millions of people, then that person benefits in a greater way than for example a worker who simply follows the rules/orders/plans created by someone else.

Answer 4

Oh yes, I think about injustice and violence every time I see a picture of Bill Gates.

Answer 5

Having more than someone else is not injustice.....why should the lazy bum be worth the same as someone who worked all their life.
Get alife.

Answer 6

this question sucks