Want a happy, healthy country? Focus on reducing inequality.

[Covertibility]

For all those who worked at Washington Mutual, Enron, Worldcom, sent to their deaths in Iraq looking for something that everyone knew didn't exist, etc.. don't blame the system or the rich who are slicing and dicing the country up for their gains, just accept it!

 

[olias]

Quote from TGregg:

If somebody is mad/depressed/angry/doing drugs/shooting, robbing, raping people/insert other negatives here just because somebody else has something they do not, then that person is #$@&ed up already and no amount of "equality" is going to fix them.

The root problem is not inequality. The root problem lies closer to the "victim" subscribing to a bad philosophy. When one spends their days blaming others for their problem, one never seems to get around to doing much to solve those problems. Keep eating at McDonald's and blaming them for being a big fat whale.

Wanna be a winner? Take responsibility for your life and your actions - solve your problems, overcome your obstacles, accept that life is not fair. Wanna be a loser? Blame everybody else for everything bad that happens and wait for other people to fix things for you.

I agree with what you say here; that the root of the problem is a bad life philosophy...but I also agree with the basic premise of the story. Bad philosophy is the rule in society, not the exception.

In other words, I'm not saying it's right that people get jealous and pissed off that others have more than they do, but it does seem to be human nature. As the wealth is concentrated into a smaller pool of people the greater the possibility of revolution.