Hi Everyone,
This post was inspired by recent events on college campuses where free speech is being violently and sadly violated. This blog links to my full article that challenges the idea inequality is something bad to be stamped out.
I shared the article with a good friend who is a leader in social and community transformation:
“This is the best economic discourse I have ever read. It makes total sense and your use of Adam and Oz to illustrate your points is really amazing. I enjoyed reading it and my mind has been stimulated to explore how your concepts could become a reality. I think you nailed a major flaw in our current society.”
– Dick Siever Leadership and Organizational Development Executive
You can read the full article here by clicking here: The marvelous gift of inequality
My purpose in the article is to proclaim and prove that in a free society:
- We can actually be glad when others have more than we do, whether it be more material goods, skills, knowledge, or opportunity.
- More for others creates opportunities for more for us, not less for us.
- Inequality is actually a major source of good. Inequality is only bad when it is the result of aggression.
- It can be virtuous for one human being to be richer than another. Rising tides lift all the boats.
- We should usually give thanks for the rich – they are our benefactors, not our enemies. Thank you Bill Gates!
- We should celebrate the increasing wealth and prosperity of society.
- Much of our wealth and prosperity today is the overflow of our predecessors around the world.
I hope you enjoy and benefit from the article.
Until next time – Will
