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 Originally Posted by CoccoBill
Well I guess I'll just have to take your word over the experts'.
What "experts"? Are you suggesting that there is a definitive right/wrong determination on whether income inequality is a good thing or a bad things? Because there isn't. There's substantial debate supporting both sides. My personal preference, is to have income inequality along with income mobility. If there is no mobility, then inequality sucks. But if there is mobility, and you're not happy with you're income, you can do something about it. That's awesome.
Originally Posted by CoccoBill
That, by definition, makes absolutely no sense. Name one that's even in top 100, and we can laugh at your idea of great.
Top 100 what? Are you saying that something as subjective as intelligence has been definitively ranked down to a list of the top 100 out of every human ever? If you're trying to suggest that there is no correlation between academic aptitude and lifetime earnings....you're out of your mind.
Originally Posted by CoccoBill
You're assuming that only money motivates people, and even to the extent that if your monetary advantage for succeeding in your country is smaller than it might be in some other country, no one's gonna bother. That's wrong on so many levels that I can't even begin to dissect it.
of course people are motivated by more than money. But to say that money isn't firmly planted at or near the top of the list is absurd. If you're born into the bottom income bracket in a given country, you can make 10x more money by moving to the top. In another country with less income inequality, the increase from bottom to top is only 5x. If you're a bright motivated individual....where would you rather live? Does it really make a difference to you if schools in the 5x country have better test scores than the 10x country?
Do you want a better paycheck? or do you wanna be just a little bit better at high school algebra than everyone else?
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