The effect of income equality on societies...

[Kasz216]

johnlucas said:

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.

Your entire rant was completely pointless you know... largely because it was COMPLETELY irrelevent.

You suggested that

A) Wealth was a zero-sum game

B) True Wealth is related to heatlh.

A Zero sum game one where one person's gain comes at another's expense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%E2%80%93sum_game

In otherwords, if wealth were really a zero sum game... average life expectancy would never increase.

Again, by your own goofy standards, your wrong, unless you want to completely rewrite the definition of Zero sum game as well.

Hell a REAL zerosum game of life based on health work like this movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

 

As for diseases being cured... I think Chicken Pox if you count Vaccines.  That was like... 17 years ago which isn't really bad when you consider how many diseases have been cured overall and in general, the diseases to be cured first are likely going to be the easy ones.  I mean what disease do you expect to be cured by now that isn't?