The question I always have to ask about inequality causing “unhappiness” is why I don’t feel that way.
Celebrities having private jets doesn’t upset me at all. Seems quite cool. I’d be more upset if I had nothing, sure, but I’m easily a factor of 100 away from jet land if not 1000. Fancy cars are cool but again, you can just… decide to not care?
It just seems intuitively obvious that what actually matters is the minimum standard, not artificially limiting the maximum.
If a study says that blue is red I’m still going to believe my eyes first hand.
Celebrities having private jets doesn’t upset me at all. Seems quite cool. I’d be more upset if I had nothing, sure, but I’m easily a factor of 100 away from jet land if not 1000. Fancy cars are cool but again, you can just… decide to not care?
It just seems intuitively obvious that what actually matters is the minimum standard, not artificially limiting the maximum.
If a study says that blue is red I’m still going to believe my eyes first hand.