And yet I feel I always come back to this:
_What can I, as an individual, do to counter wealth inequality?_
It feels like breaking my fist against a brick wall.
_What can I, as an individual, do to counter wealth inequality?_
It feels like breaking my fist against a brick wall.
It's a huge undertaking, but you _can_ vote where your tax money gets sent. You can ensure it bootstraps a more equal system instead of propping-up an unequal one.
I did this myself, and I feel good about having done it.
If the only people paying real attention to gov't leaders are the greedy and power-hungry, then few decent people will run for office. And very few of those win.
A lot of the time other web stores can offer the same value.
If you feed this into a decent chatbot, or in an Ask HN, you might be surprised.
But yes, generally this is how druglords work.
Dictatorship is an almost inevitable outcome of huge wealth inequality.
At the very least political checks and balances erode rapidly, because most politicians, judges, and media people love easy money. If a billionaire throws money at them they'll do whatever they're told to do.
There aren't many systems that protect non-compliers from negative consequences when they're surrounded by corruption.
Also, who said anything about Amazon? Why are you myopic? The whole system is rotten to the core when a single person can make it in a minute more than 99% of world’s population and not use the money to advance the world. And before you mark (ha, get it?) me as a communist – I’m not against wealth and personal ownership. It’s one thing to own a Ferrari and an expensive home, and is another to live in a cookie clicker world watching number go up and doing nothing with it but multiply the money.