Do you think we can truly succeed as an equal society?

I’m such a fan of helping the people worse off than myself, those that don’t have the tools to do better, or achieve better. Or even those that are at a somewhat disadvantage to others be it a myriad of social displacements or physical disablements. Whatever the case I think society should step up in true collectivism style and help out.

My last post sparked quite a debate, and, in true fashion did what I wanted. It started a discussion. Apologies that I didn’t get to you all, my friend had woman troubles so I’ve spent most of my time trying to be an all in one bar-stool and bartender.

Anyway, one post stood out for me and I think it’s led me onto another discussion, I also plan to be part of this discussion too! It lead to a larger discussion. I totally believe that people should be rewarded for their efforts. I believe if you stick at something and work hard at it, you should be rewarded. And differently according to level of risk, effort, and responsibility one needs to bear and so on.

What I don’t believe is that someone at the very top of the food chain can earn wages completely disproportionate to their own level of responsibility, et al, to someone right at the bottom. Both work hard, both put in a considerable amount of effort and both would have no job without one another. Sadly, it feels like we are being drawn into a pre-war era where food was ridiculously expensive and wages were exceedingly low.

You can see it now with grocery prices rising by at least double in the last five years and where wages have stagnated. They have barely budged an inch, and we, you, I, have had to forage for food whilst those at the top have reported record earnings and became oh so much fatter in the monetary sense.

And this is why I think true equality will never work, not in our lifetimes. We can work to make the world a better place for our children but we as a species have a long, long way to go to achieve true equality. If you look at the anarcho-socialists, socialists, collectivists, and all the other ists out there of the left, they all want the same thing, but working towards our goal we have begun to argue amongst ourselves like petulant children. I’m guilty of this too. I don’t know why but some ideas from other collectivists have me burning like a fire-rage inside.

I see other people of my political orientation decrying those that have no work, and that they should be put to work by the government to help pay for their upkeep. Personally, I think we should just leave them alone and help them work on their chances of getting a job that suits them. Not your idea, or mine, or anyone else’s.

We’ll always have something to moan at, and if that gets sorted you bet we’ll find something else, it’s hard pleasing millions of people that are so divided and brainwashed on certain issues. Don’t think you’re brainwashed? Pick a touchy subject, then look at an unknown and innocent picture of that subject; the one you feel the most hatred to and make the most judgements without knowing any other details apart from the picture itself is an effect of brainwashing. Fear, hatred, etc

But I digress. Perhaps we’ll see incredible change in the next 50 years. Who knows? We can only live on hope!

Thank you, please, comment away!