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Why Inequality Works!

      Okay....you just got past the title and you think I'm insane right? Inequality works you ask? The answer is yes. Bare with me and I'll explain.

      Nature HATES anything static. The earth revolves around the sun because the pull of the sun is held at bay by the centripetal force of the spinning earth. The wind blows because we have high and low pressure areas that move air from the high to the low. From the jungle to the desert, some animals are hunters and some are prey. Inequality in humans is no different!

      Telling a child he's just as good as the child next to him harms him as much as if you beat him physically. For a child or an adult to excel, he/she needs two things, something to move away from and something to move toward. A child that gets an F on a test knows he has to move away from the F and toward the A, thus he studies harder and improves. Take away the reward of the A or the punishment/stigma of the F and the child has no reason to change. Witness inequality in action!

      As an adult, people need no less a motivator in order to grow. How many of you have met wealthy people that are as dumb as a box of rocks? let's dub this the Paris Hilton syndrome. This person has a polar opposite in the poor moron that is happy where he is. In between, people move up and down the monetary and social ladders, much like the wind blows from high to low pressure. Think of wealth as high pressure and poverty as low pressure. Both are needed to make money FLOW. Anyway, back to the motivation. Poor people look up at the wealthy know they must work harder in order to get where they are. Wealthy people look to those below them and know they need to work hard to keep what they have. People in the middle have both extremes to motivate them. Again, inequality in action!

     Take away the extremes and no one has a reason to work hard or grow as a person. This is the reason “spreading the wealth around” and making everyone “equal” is doomed to failure! Once everyone is made the same, we all begin to stagnate and die!

     Lately, I have heard a lot about “class envy”. This should be relabeled “Class Hate”! Class envy is actually good! If you envy what you see, you will work harder to get the same. If you look at someone wealthy and hate them because they have more, you will have no problem taking away what they worked so hard to get. If that sounds okay to you, just remember, what they can take away from the wealthy, they can take away easier from the rest of us! The average man needs wealthy people to supply jobs through business owned or to buy goods and services from the business you work for.

     The wealthy person needs the average person to work and produce the things they sell. If you cut off the legs of the wealthy man, jobs will be lost and no one will be left to stand on their own.

     Without inequity, our whole world would grind to a halt! The nice thing is that in this country at least, you can do anything you want and be wealthy or poor. It's your choice! Remember, you will never have wealth if you wait for someone to give it to you! Lotteries not included.