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Originally Posted by Eric
the greatest threat to political and social stability in the world is not militant Islam, the US military, North Korea, drug cartels, or what ever else you care to think of, it is the unequal distribution of the World's wealth.
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Was there ever a time in the history of the human race when 'the rich didn't get the gravy and the poor the bleeding blame'?
Has any country, empire or government ever resolved it? Even for a short time?
Any Empire you can name-any country you can name- has always had the very rich and the very poor, whatever system they use, capitalism, communism, dictatorship, democracy.
It's a lamentable condition of human nature to try to get richer at someone else's expense.
Has any revolution ever rectified it? No, the rich have been removed and the leaders of the poor have become the rich and powerful. very often those new rich have given the poor a harder time than the old rich did. Always the bulk of the poor have remained at the bottom.
Just like killing people because you don't like their religion, colour, race or just feel like killing- it's part of our nature, our species isn't a very nice one and hasn't improved over thousands of years, in fact we've got better at both habits.