> But the reality is everyone can be rich.
Reality is everyone can not be rich. So this is pseudo philosophy, with all due respect.
Reality is everyone can not be rich. So this is pseudo philosophy, with all due respect.
It's not a fixed pie. We are growing the pie. Most people in "developed" countries are rich from a historical perspective. We have shelter, running water, cheap and plentiful food (so much that we waste over 30%), electricity, microwaves, refrigerators, pocket computers and so on. There's no reason this can't come to the entire world and continue to improve for all.
But you are just playing words games.
Everyone probably cannot be rich like this unless we invent some sort of frighteningly advanced automation to take care of our basic needs.
Good example of "all or nothing thinking" here. "Toiling every day on the backs of humans for our every need" OR "Frighteningly advanced automation" — reality is higher fidelity than that.
We're already SO far towards the latter scenario (washing our clothes magically with the press of a button), painting it as a dichotomy only serves to highlight how out of touch with reality the immutable scarcity worldview is.
No amount of toasters will change the fact that some people will have to live inland.
That's why we have global warming.
“ At the same time, deep down many people believe they can’t make it; so they don’t want any wealth creation to happen. They virtue signal by attacking the whole enterprise, saying, “Well, making money is evil. You shouldn’t do it.”
But they’re actually playing the other game, which is the status game. They’re trying to be high status in the eyes of others by saying, “Well, I don’t need money. We don’t want money.””
The world is full of evidence that one of,if not the biggest factor on people's wealth is the wealth of their parents. It's incredibly hard to escape povity.
Some people are so poor, all they have is money ― Patrick Meagher
And that definition not only varies from person to person but also due to geography and other factors.
> But the reality is everyone can be rich. We can see that by seeing, that in the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago.
And we can also see that those riches in large part rest on the poverty of people who happen to be outside the first world, even for basic necessities like food and clothes.
Externalising the poverty doesn't make it not exist.
poverty isnt some conserved property that needs to be "externalized" to make the developed world rich.
0. At some point in the not-so-far-off future we will get around to automating all of these things, but until then people have become too deeply entitled to commodities produced by other people that are paid poverty wages.
I have access to pretty good healthcare (both privately And publicly). I have access to museums, and the internet, and I have a fire brigade and ambulances if I have some sort of accident. All of these things are wealth that we’ve built as a society and only tangentially related to how much money I personally have.