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Re:Summers on Piketty by shiven on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @03:32PM (#7780246)
... now I live in a 5000 sq ft mcmansion, and everybody else lives in 1000 sq ft houses.

So what did you do so special that you get a 5-fold increase in your living area and what did others do so wrong that they got a 2-fold increase only?

Sometimes the problem isn't inequality but envy and jealousy - I believe the Bible speaks to these two emotions as well.

The part that grinds on the human psyche is just a plain old sense of fairness and justice. Why muddy it up with religion?

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Re:Summers on Piketty by timtas on Friday May 23, 2014 @09:27AM (#7789221)
If I experience a 2-fold increase, and it's "grinding on my psyche" that that someone else got a 5-fold increase, you can bet it's because someone with something to gain is whispering discontent into my ear.
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Re:Summers on Piketty by shiven on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:29AM (#7809767)
Or, I see the ever-widening gap with my own eyes? Not requiring the use of my ears at all.
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