Comment by GrowingSideways
9 hours ago
What makes you think wealth inequality doesn't cause despair? Despair strikes me as the expected and desired effect.
9 hours ago
What makes you think wealth inequality doesn't cause despair? Despair strikes me as the expected and desired effect.
Hunger and struggling to pay one's bills -- those cause despair. Envy surely does not (and should not). And anyways the claim that relative wealth inequality (as opposed to actual poverty) causes despair is an extraordinary claim and it requires that you present extraordinary evidence.