Are Democracy and economic equality fundamentally incompatible?

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Kasz216 said:

It depends how you define incompatable.

Democracy and wealth equality totally could work.

However to that, general socialization would have to be different.

There were a number of communist communes that seemed to work for a short period of time and were democratic... because the people there more or less self selected a population in which that would work.

 

If people and culture was slolwy changed over time to be more collectivist, it totally could work.  Of course that's unlikely to happen, as populism generally leads to drastic moves which set back collectivist culture, as drastic moves end up being seen as an attack by other portions of the population. 

At the root of the question I mean: Incapable of existing together.   I am fine if you expand the thought and don't think so black and white though.  Making a case for likely hood for equality or inequality

 

People saying economic equality is not possible is not really answering the question.  I do not mean 100% equality, just whether democracy could work to make the world more economic equal or if that will never happen because they cannot really co exist for whatever reason.  Or it could happen but is unlikely for what ever reason

Well, the way you're putting it makes it subjective to the current status of the world (it seems).  To that, I say that it's possible and likely.  Democracies can certainly lead to more prosperity in the world and thus making other states more equal to each other.  In that sense, an economic equality can be gained (to a very limited degree).  It's also possible that the gap between the poor and rich in a poor authoritarian society to lessen if they become democratic.  

The real problem with this question is that it has become too subjective and vague.  Democracy can mean many things, and the United States itself is loosely considered a democracy (as a means to try to prevent tyranny of the majority and other democracy related issues).  This kind of question becomes really hard to answer because of it.