57% of all americans have less than 1 paycheck worth of savings in their bank. They don't have the option to shop around for other work or invest in personal growth to attain their 'true value'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
> We all cannot be equally well-off. Value will always flow, and eventually concentrate.
And eventually revolutions topple the structures where value has concentrated when wealth disparity gets too big, and the cycle begins again. After several risen and fallen civilisations/empires, maybe its time to try something other than the one strategy that we for sure know the outcome of.
We don't need to be all equally well off, but we do need to compress the top and bottom 10% of the income disparity curve. No one on this planet should have billions of dollars in personal wealth, and no one on this planet should be too poor to afford shelter healthcare and food.
> We all cannot be equally well-off. Value will always flow, and eventually concentrate.
And eventually revolutions topple the structures where value has concentrated when wealth disparity gets too big, and the cycle begins again. After several risen and fallen civilisations/empires, maybe its time to try something other than the one strategy that we for sure know the outcome of.
We don't need to be all equally well off, but we do need to compress the top and bottom 10% of the income disparity curve. No one on this planet should have billions of dollars in personal wealth, and no one on this planet should be too poor to afford shelter healthcare and food.