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What does Aristotle quote "the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal" mean?
Aristotle meant that inequality has existed as long as humans have existed and it is not some sort of cause or input that can simply be manipulated to someone’s liking.
Socialists always talk about making people equal which means trying to make unequal things equal.
Life is not fair and income and wealth outcomes cannot be made equal. This is a part of the human condition and is deeply rooted in human genetic differences, environmental differences and behavior. Vilfredo Pareto developed his mathematics describing the maldistribution of wealth by observations he made in nineteenth century Italy. Sir Issac Newton developed his mathematics describing the mechanics of gravity in the seventeenth century. Talking about reducing inequality is like talking about reducing gravity.
Political leftists have attempted to create a phony crisis about inequality. It is an attempt to use people’s envy to garner support and votes for leftist causes and parties.
There are two myths about wealth touted and apparently believed by Democrats, the political Left and their media lapdogs. They try to make a political issue of inequality. Those myths are:
That total wealth is a fixed amount.
That there exists or can exist some sort of Great Wizard of Oz who “distributes” wealth.
These two beliefs are completely untrue.
Wealth is created, almost always by free-market capitalism and wealth is destroyed, usually by socialism. (At the present time it has been temporarily destroyed by the the Corona Virus, which has a lot in common with socialism.) Both creation and destruction of wealth can occur rapidly.
Wealth inequality is described by a scientific phenomenon known as Pareto’s Law. In free market capitalism a disproportionate amount of wealth tends to accumulate among the wealth creators at the top. This is a natural occurrence and is nothing to be concerned about. In fact, greater wealth and a higher standard of living for everyone at all levels usually correlates with a greater income inequality.
The alternative to a wide income inequality is socialism which provides a low economic standard of living or, more likely, poverty and misery for most people.
Pareto’s law applies in many areas of our experience.
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