The effect of income equality on societies...

[johnlucas]

Kasz216 said:

johnlucas said:

No, you are wrong. Money imposes itself on true wealth. HEALTH is wealth. And HEALTH is achieved by meeting your body's needs. That's all it ever was.

You have totally bought into this illusion & I'm not surprised because this is what is taught from birth in this country. the truth is that money associates itself with true wealth.

Again, if you were to consdier Health as the ONLY way to measure wealth.... your arguement that money is a zero sum game is demonstrably false by the fact that people live longer now then they did in the past.

The advancement of medical technology has increased health and therefore it isn't a zero sum game.

So even by your own messed up definitions... you are wrong.

 

 

Aside from which, I'd like to ask you... say everyone in the country is equally healthy, yet some of these people live in giant mansions with every luxuary available, while others live in a one room apartment that provides nothing but the basic nessessities.  Do you really view these two groups as equal?

False equivalence. Increased knowledge on how to extend life need not be linked to money.
Medical technology advancement is because of ingenuity & insight.

You can't see a society that doesn't operate on money much like people in the Middle Ages could not see a man walking on the moon.
Medical technology extended quality of life not money. Like I said before money ASSOCIATES itself with the truly valuable. It is only valuable by proxy.

There are those & have always been those who study & observe the world for the betterment of humankind. They were not motivated by money but by their belief in their abilities to decipher the mysteries of life.

Those who studied the stars in the ancient past & mapped out constellations weren't doing it for the money. They did for the simple curiosity of how this amazing universe works. You think the man who discovered fire was worrying about cash?

Money gets in the way of a lot of progress, in fact. People are forced to worry about making a living & that cuts into time they could be spending solving our crucial problems. They get compromised & study for the profits of a corporation.

When was the last time you heard of a disease being CURED? All the technology they have today but more diseases were being solved when things were not so advanced. The medical field has become a business & businesses are first & foremost concerned with making a profit for the bottom line. Medical researchers no longer look for that which can eliminate a disease, they look for that which allows them to continue "treating" a disease. If all the diseases are cured then the doctors are out of business, right? With the money motive all the medical field is worried about is repeat business. It actually GETS IN THE WAY of progress.

Here's a famous picture of São Paolo, Brazil where some rich folks hotel's tennis court is bigger than the favelas (shantytown ghettos) right next to it.
And I bet you that's not a public use tennis court either. That's obscene & it's a wonder a Revolution hasn't happened in Brazil yet.
The rich KNOW it's obscene & that's why they live in gated communities with high security protection. Something like that should be public use for the WHOLE community. A shared resource. But massive income inequality creates this situation & only one solution will rectify it: the end of the money system.

Health is all the wealth you need. All those luxury mansions are nothing but ego. Nobody can live in that much house if they tried. Mansions were meant for whole generations of a family to live in. Almost like a private hotel. You take up that much land you had better share it with the community.

The man with the one bedroom apartment is probably more grounded & has better peace of mind. Easier to clean to boot. Once you get a certain amount of money, thanks to that middleman you have taken care of basically all of your needs & wants. Money then reverts into its true uselessness & the rich have to find some way to justify the worth of that excess money. This is when you see overgrown houses & ridiculous car collections, clothes collections. They don't know what to do with it all & just go on ego trips. Some of them only feel fulfilled when they reconnect with the non-rich working through charities and becoming activists. They would be fulfilling their need for belonging/affiliation.

Understand what true value is, Kasz216. Money is fake just like time. The reason you can't time travel is because time is only a measurement of change. You wanna travel back in time, rewind your clock. Voilá! Both of them are self-imposed human illusions.
The value I speak of comes from a source BEYOND humankind.
John Lucas