Inequality is not about those who have more wealth and those who have less wealth. It's about those who have more land and those who have less land.
In a book called "Progress and Poverty," Henry George argues that advancements like technological progress, government improvements, and corporate growth, AI, EV's, while seemingly beneficial, ultimately lead to increased land value and exacerbate inequality.
He contends that these improvements, rather than benefiting society as a whole, primarily enrich landowners through increased rent, and the capital gains from that, further concentrating wealth and contributing to poverty and the artificial need for a welfare state. And ultimately war, where the land of other nations is now required to remain above water.
What are the mechanics of this? Well, all improvements of any kind increase economic productivity, and then the desire to live and produce in the location where productivity is the highest, or higher relatively. This new demand for land which is fixed in supply must mean it's value rises to the same extent.
It's not rocket science. Curiously no economist, politician or religious person, nay, no person who wants to 'get on' will go near this basic observation that even a small child can see clearly. Anyone who tries to make a stand on it will lose their friends, their reputation, their career, their high seat. And possibly a place on the right hand side of god.
Here lies root cause of all social problems. What seems so hard to solve is simply a matter of a change of mind. Or more like, an evolution. From that of psychotic primordial existential survival behaviours. To an attitude that says, "how high might we climb, we no longer fear shortages of anything or sudden death".
Though some existential problems still do exist, they are relatively tiny now compared to yesterday and pale into insignificance. Sure, it doesn't feel like this does it? Well thats only because we keep thinking with a primordial mind as The People - thus we keep repeating the same old cave man like mistakes which cause it to seem that way. We are still primitive people. Huge productivity, even by Elon, does not rescue us from that mental health position. Evidently!
Most people scoff at this by saying, these are ancient matters and no longer apply. But this is a mistake. Yes, they are ancient matters - this is my whole point, we are choosing not to evolve. People believe that evolution is an increase in productive power, but never talk about the higher things that have not increased at all. The cause and effect has intensified, so much so, that it only 'appears to be' fundamentally different today. Our view of the world has been blurred and rendered invisible by the staggeringly grotesque scale of it nowadays, that is all.
Yet it's identical. No longer is it enough to appropriate rent from your neighbours. It must be gotten from other races and cultures or whomever has it is all that drives us. The incredible stupidity of woke culture is merely helping blur our vision that much further. Watch China, America, Europe as it plays out. Nothing in the slightest has changed fundamental for 10,000 years. We have failed to evolve. And seem to be getting more and more stupid. We are failing, as The People, consistently to find the strength to elect leadership.
Holding a leaders seat, does not make you a leader. There has only been one authentic leader and He exists only in myth and symbol to The People today - we killed Him because he was pointing all of this out with superb clarity. It was not the Jews, though we persecute them today in another cowardly escape, especially the atheists curiously.
So the systemic pathology proceeds, apace, in spite of incredible productive power where the poor no longer really exist except in those locations where the people remain in denial of this or are victims of invasion for their land in the old way.
Circular reasoning. Or is it a kind of mental illness which infects whole nations? No matter what their creed colour or race.
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