<story><title>The &apos;Glass Floor&apos; Is Keeping America&apos;s Richest Idiots at the Top</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>There is no moral issue with inequality. The moral issue is with equality. There will always be people who are willing to work twice as hard as someone else, and there are always people who if given the choice will not work at all, even if able bodied. Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.&lt;p&gt;It doesn’t take a computer simulation to show how free people wind up with different degrees of success. I want us to have more equality of opportunity but enforcing equality of outcomes with violence (government enforced equality, where violators are imprisoned) is a terrible evil.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Is Inequality Inevitable?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;is-inequality-inevitable&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;is-inequality-ine...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Wealth inequality is escalating in many countries at an alarming rate, with the U.S. arguably having the highest inequality in the developed world.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;A remarkably simple model of wealth distribution developed by physicists and mathematicians can reproduce inequality in a range of countries with unprecedented accuracy.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Surprisingly, several mathematical models of free-market economies display features of complex macroscopic physical systems such as ferromagnets, including phase transitions, symmetry breaking and duality.&lt;p&gt;An interesting article that argues that wealth inequality is inevitable in a free market system which does not have non-market measures that counteract the tendency to oligarchy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FpUser</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;There is no moral issue with inequality&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, there is. Thanks to legalized corruption ( lobbying ) the rich are able to twist laws and regulations more and more to their advantage. This is self feeding process and the final outcome does not look nice at all.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nice try at twisting the line, who is talking about absolute equality here? You know there are all kinds of shades between black and white.</text></comment>
<story><title>The &apos;Glass Floor&apos; Is Keeping America&apos;s Richest Idiots at the Top</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>There is no moral issue with inequality. The moral issue is with equality. There will always be people who are willing to work twice as hard as someone else, and there are always people who if given the choice will not work at all, even if able bodied. Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.&lt;p&gt;It doesn’t take a computer simulation to show how free people wind up with different degrees of success. I want us to have more equality of opportunity but enforcing equality of outcomes with violence (government enforced equality, where violators are imprisoned) is a terrible evil.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Is Inequality Inevitable?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;is-inequality-inevitable&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;is-inequality-ine...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Wealth inequality is escalating in many countries at an alarming rate, with the U.S. arguably having the highest inequality in the developed world.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;A remarkably simple model of wealth distribution developed by physicists and mathematicians can reproduce inequality in a range of countries with unprecedented accuracy.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Surprisingly, several mathematical models of free-market economies display features of complex macroscopic physical systems such as ferromagnets, including phase transitions, symmetry breaking and duality.&lt;p&gt;An interesting article that argues that wealth inequality is inevitable in a free market system which does not have non-market measures that counteract the tendency to oligarchy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerbilly</author><text>Would it be a terrible evil to put measures in place to prevent  people from ending up in grinding poverty though?&lt;p&gt;Reasonable financial&amp;#x2F;social welfare regulations do not amount to violence by any reasonable definition.&lt;p&gt;If inequality is inevitable, then some people are going to end up on the bottom.  If the bottom is not enough to live on, then &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; could be argued to be structural violence.</text></comment>