Already the most disliked man in America, Zuckerberg will show with his next era whether he believes in anything as much as he does power. Was his interest in jiu-jitsu mixed martial arts authentic or a way to ingratiate himself with the manosphere’s podcast hosts? We may know by the time he faces his first inquest. Perhaps he’ll return to the liberal roots of his former public image like founding a pro-immigration nonprofit, as he did a decade ago.
I agree wholeheartedly.
My only caveat is that I don’t care if there’s still a modest amount of social stratification. I think that’s inevitable, because human activity is a dynamic process. Even if we were to reset the playing field to perfectly level, it wouldn’t stay that way for long.
But if the richest people in the world are only ten-millionaires, and the poorest people in the world have enough to build a comfortable nest egg and have access to everything needful for a healthy and thriving life (we can use Maslow’s hierarchy as a compass here; I’d say the lower three tiers at a bare minimum should be considered bottomline universal rights; there’s room to expand that as society progresses); if we can achieve that, then I believe a just and equitable society is possible even without a perfectly even distribution of resources.
(And I say that as someone at the lower end of the middle class, so it’s not like I have any assets to defend. I just think everyone deserves the same basic standard of living that I have access to. It should be a right, not a privilege).
But it would of course require adequate government oversight in accordance with democratic processes to ensure it doesn’t snowball over time into a new oligarchy/plutocracy.