Moving to a poorer area has consequences on many aspects of the surroundings that someone may desire.
Is anyone claiming ALL people care about is relative income? What I gather is it’s easy to poke at the envy impulse, that’s it. It’s easy for people to resent the success of others and explain it away as undeserv…
Moving to a poorer area has consequences on many aspects of the surroundings that someone may desire.
Is anyone claiming ALL people care about is relative income? What I gather is it’s easy to poke at the envy impulse, that’s it. It’s easy for people to resent the success of others and explain it away as undeserved, ill gotten, stolen. The most ill gotten gains in society circa 2025 are likely from companies greasing the government. Inherited money may piss people off but passing down money is a motivator for many people to work hard.
- [ ] I found it beyond farcical a multimillionaire Liz Warren sold billionaire tear mugs. Everything about this was satire playing out in real life. She flipped housing, evil, but she’s out for the consumer who should be protected from arbitrarily defined too high prices except if she’s the seller. She invented an identity (to be fair she really seemed to believe it) that may have bumped up her income and most people don’t start reasoning maybe the problem is the people most benefiting from identity don’t need the benefit at all or at least anywhere near as much as those defined by class and distorted social environments. And if these identities are so bad in terms of current effect why are middle class and upper middle class and even wealthy people exploiting it. Can’t pick on millionaires because if you include housing wealth too many people make the cut. And what lifts up society- Making a profit off an objectively overpriced kitschy mug. It’s difficult to follow the logic of your article because it’s not like you can move to a poorer area and everything will just be the same for you. I agree most people don’t waste mental space comparing income in a broad sense though they may among friends or coworkers but envy is an unfortunately highly sensitive easily pushed button. Didn’t make the cut for a deadly sin for nothing. I’m writing this without my glasses so hopefully it’s in English
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Moving to a poorer area has consequences on many aspects of the surroundings that someone may desire.
Is anyone claiming ALL people care about is relative income? What I gather is it’s easy to poke at the envy impulse, that’s it. It’s easy for people to resent the success of others and explain it away as undeserved, ill gotten, stolen. The most ill gotten gains in society circa 2025 are likely from companies greasing the government. Inherited money may piss people off but passing down money is a motivator for many people to work hard.
- [ ] I found it beyond farcical a multimillionaire Liz Warren sold billionaire tear mugs. Everything about this was satire playing out in real life. She flipped housing, evil, but she’s out for the consumer who should be protected from arbitrarily defined too high prices except if she’s the seller. She invented an identity (to be fair she really seemed to believe it) that may have bumped up her income and most people don’t start reasoning maybe the problem is the people most benefiting from identity don’t need the benefit at all or at least anywhere near as much as those defined by class and distorted social environments. And if these identities are so bad in terms of current effect why are middle class and upper middle class and even wealthy people exploiting it. Can’t pick on millionaires because if you include housing wealth too many people make the cut. And what lifts up society- Making a profit off an objectively overpriced kitschy mug. It’s difficult to follow the logic of your article because it’s not like you can move to a poorer area and everything will just be the same for you. I agree most people don’t waste mental space comparing income in a broad sense though they may among friends or coworkers but envy is an unfortunately highly sensitive easily pushed button. Didn’t make the cut for a deadly sin for nothing. I’m writing this without my glasses so hopefully it’s in English