Agreed. Unfortunately humans are hardwired to compare themselves to others.

aprilthird2021 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So much so that even if the quality of life of the lowest improves greatly, if the quality of life of everyone around them improves even more rapidly, they will feel worse off, not better off

	▲	CGMthrowaway 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you." Because on one level, we are all just competing for finite resources - especially quality females - economics is in that context an ordinal competition, not cardinal.[1] But on another level, it's the mutual cooperation, wealth creation from nothing (making the "finite" a little less finite and a little more infinite), etc that allows us to advance both as a society and as individuals. [1]There is an interesting tie into Mises here if I wanted to rabbit hole it (value is subjective, not measurable in cardinal units, and exists only in the mind as a ranked preference of options)

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thrance 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is extremely reductionist of leftwing politics and ideas, and I sincerely hope you are not basing your political orientation from that. Wealth inequality is power inequality, which in a society leads to terrible outcomes for the majority.