Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence?
https://aeon.co/essays/are-plagues-and-wars-the-only-ways-to-reduce-inequality
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@GuerillaOntologist
"as the land filled up and small communities coalesced into larger societies." ... Maybe it's all just a consequence of overpopulation ...
@lwriemen
So the problem isn't that there are too many of us; the problem is that we are *doing too much shit*. So we should be valorizing naptime and day-dreaming and playing chess, rather than "being productive."
@lwriemen
I think it may be a social instantiation of a general physical property, i.e. the more energy contained in a system, the greater the energy gradient (i.e. inequality) will be. I heard this from a "cloud scientist" on some podcast last week, but I'm having a hard time finding it now. His claim was that the more energy produced/activity taking place/work being done within a system the greater the amount of inequality the system will necessarily produce. Could be something to that.