Originally Posted by loquitur

no, will, I didn't miss #6. I even chuckled a bit. I know your tongue was in your cheek, but it did touch on an aspect of what I'm trying to get at here. The question it raises is, "what are we measuring?"

Are we measuring people's happiness and well-being? Do we care about people having different amounts of physical things (of which money is the main one) because we think that money/things make them happy? And if that's the case, is there some other way of measuring happiness that is more reliable than the number of things people have? If that's NOT the case, why do we care about people having different numbers of physical things?

Again: I'm trying to get at WHY economic inequality matters. Not that it should be ASSUMED it matters, but that the reasons should be articulated. I agree does matters at some level, but I suspect my level and reason differs from others'.

Host, I'm ignoring your post now because you refuse to stick with the topic. You simply assume things and then berate me for not signing on to your assumption. That's not what this thread is about.