No worries, thanks for replying. When I say I don’t believe in them, I mean I don’t believe we (i.e. society) should create those systems. Unfortunately I absolutely believe we do create them, both deliberately and inadvertently.
I think some degree of meritocracy (i.e. recognition of a skills hierarchy) is necessary for human advancement, but as it currently stands it’s impossible to separate that out from wealth privilege. If I had the answer, I’d make sure to tell everybody.
There’s a million other processes by which wealth favours the accumulation of wealth, and it’s largely this “logic of capital” that results in the formation of class hierarchies and entrenched inequality/capital enclaves.
That’s probably secondary to geography in the first instance, e.g. wealth in the form of agricultural surpluses and the use of grain as a fungible commodity and proto-currency.
At this point a huge amount of wealth redistribution seems like a good start, and if it all flows back to the top, which I’d expect it to, then it’ll just need redistributing again.
No worries, thanks for replying. When I say I don’t believe in them, I mean I don’t believe we (i.e. society) should create those systems. Unfortunately I absolutely believe we do create them, both deliberately and inadvertently.
That’s an interesting perspective.
You think they’d form on their own? or we shouldn’t be getting to the point where they are needed or something else entirely ?
I think some degree of meritocracy (i.e. recognition of a skills hierarchy) is necessary for human advancement, but as it currently stands it’s impossible to separate that out from wealth privilege. If I had the answer, I’d make sure to tell everybody.
There’s a million other processes by which wealth favours the accumulation of wealth, and it’s largely this “logic of capital” that results in the formation of class hierarchies and entrenched inequality/capital enclaves.
That’s probably secondary to geography in the first instance, e.g. wealth in the form of agricultural surpluses and the use of grain as a fungible commodity and proto-currency.
At this point a huge amount of wealth redistribution seems like a good start, and if it all flows back to the top, which I’d expect it to, then it’ll just need redistributing again.