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Oh, the sweet collectivist and utopian mindset that prevails nowadays in western politics. People fail to realize that the human being has inherent negative qualities and are naturally unequal. Maybe you can numb them by burying them on social welfare, but for how long you can sustain that situation? How is such a society growing or evolving in any way? Take South Korea and it's ruthless educational system compared to North Korea. Nature teaches us enough about what happens to your perfect, well-cared crops when you leave them to the wild.
So I say income equality is only a issue as long as it does have political or cultural bases, instead of social differences or simple merit. Believe me, the US is far past that unlike what you can find on Russia or China, for example. What you need is to discover exactly what in the american society is leading people to engage in such behavior when it did not happened in the past, and whose people are likely to fall for these based on their mental condition. Is it the influence of the media, including movies and games? Let's not come with an emotional response here just because you enjoy your new CoD and didn't become a mad killer so far. Is the lack of contact among people making harder to identify those with mental issues?
Damn. It's complicated.
Edit - when I said about inequality not being a issue anymore in the US, that's not entirely correct. So yeah, due to the tendentious facets of the media and rampant corporate speculation and lobby, there are still lots of unfair inequality in the US. Like some people getting overpaid for nothing and others earning naught for their hard work. Again, the media here. And the same for Europe.
