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timbgray t1_iz9nulg wrote

Reply to comment by Heartbroken_Boomer in Amia Srinivasan, philosopher: ‘We must create a sexual culture that destabilizes the notion of hierarchy’ by Logibenq

The prevalent social hierarchy is the result of competence in obtaining wealth.

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Base_Six t1_izar7lv wrote

While that's a nice ideal, I think in reality wealth has more to do with how wealthy your parents were than it does with personal competence. The best way to make money is to have money, and being gifted a down payment on a house and a debt-free college education sets you on a radically different trajectory in terms of earning prospects.

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timbgray t1_izbc4bo wrote

Well, the wealth was created somewhere by someone, and the generic creation of wealth is ultimately manifest in our social hierarchies. Note the context of my comment was a response to a previous post. Of course, other factors impact our social hierarchies as well, our DNA being the most obvious example. I’ll also note in passing that ontologically competence is a hierarchy.

My basic point is that the majority of time, the vast majority, targeting “hierarchies” for almost any critical sociological purpose is aiming at the wrong target, because the fundamental cause of the general angst on display (which seems to be mostly self indulgence) is simply our nature as biological beings.

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Base_Six t1_izbiaeu wrote

I think a certain degree of wealth-based hierarchy is unavoidable, but there's an inverse relationship between income inequality and happiness that's been documented in numerous studies. Part of our nature as biological beings seems to be a strong negative reaction to what we perceive as unfairness.

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timbgray t1_izbmk0q wrote

I suspect that if we unwound that inequality, the unhappiness index would increase.

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Mindless-State-616 t1_izlozh9 wrote

then please at least provide reliable data or to a paper that proves such causality of your country's, then.

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Heartbroken_Boomer t1_iz9pwdd wrote

Or is it the art of obtaining wealth, or is it the beauty of it, the spirit of it? Let us move the goalpost together. Let's make up new words and phrases until you are an unicorn and I am your daddy.

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