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Re:SF’s Housing Crisis Explained by rayiner on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @08:11AM (#7591372)
Because people think its bad, and it feels unfair. People don't need any better reason to try to address it.

Fundamentally, wealth can only be created against the backdrop of social order. If you gave Zuck $10 million, far more capital then he started Facebook with, and sent him to Somalia, he would not be a billionaire today. He would've been killed and his money taken. Any business he built would've been taken from him. Because he's not skilled in war, and without social order that's the only skill that matters.

Each person equally contributes to the social order, and therefore each person has equal say in the structure of that society. That's the basis for liberal democracy. If people feel that inequality undermines the social order, they are entitled to do something about it.

Re:SF’s Housing Crisis Explained by twoodfin on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @10:41AM (#7592058)
If people feel that inequality undermines the social order, they are entitled to do something about it.

Sure. But if they're proposing cures worse than the disease, we should try to talk them out of it, not just play on their feelings of "unfairness" to win political battles.