Income Inequality and Left Wing Hypocricy

[The Grand Nudger]

For a while I have been vacillating on the current issue of income inequality. The fact that overwhelming wealth has been concentrated into an extremely small group of individuals is something I find disturbing. At the same time, I'm not sure how my life would be different were that not the case. I certainly believe that average citizens have unprecedented access markets and audiences - more than any other time in human history.

Do you own (as in own outright with no liens or leverage) your own home, vehicles, a bankable acreage, do you have savings set aside for reasonable eventualities, did your kids go to the college of their choice, did you?  How many vacations do you take, yearly, and what sort of vacations are they (as in, do you stay home for a week or book a flight)?  Could you lose your job or switch careers without losing any of the previously mentioned this and thats?

By culture and temperament I value liberty more highly than material equality - at least once a people have achieved a basic level of sustenance and security.

The two are tied at the hip.  I have more liberty than a poorer man whose sustenance and security requirements are met.  

The author also did not treat much of longevity and how advances in technology would produce what I believe would be an even more odious kind of inequality. Despite difference of wealth and power, those of more common stock could at least take some consolation that death comes to all - from kings to peasants. I'm curious about how others feel.

(hat tip: maverick philosopher)

When we first start modifying ourselves, there will be a two class society.  The improved, and the rest of us.