Jesus

Jesus was no dummy. He had the problem figured out: wealth inequality. But his solution was to give away all your possessions and hope for the end of the world. That ended so poorly he was driven to an elaborate suicide-by-cop. In the end, Jesus was a sort of nihilist, believing that life on earth was largely unimportant (compared to the Kingdom of God).

Today, the rich capitalists at the top of the pile: Bezos, Zuskerberg, Musk, et al., are a different flavor of nihilist. They can see that wealth inequality is a problem. Specifically, it’s everyone else’s problem. They are also hoping for a quick end of the world. They figure their money will protect them while the rabble perish. They keep everything and give nothing away.

Most of us are hoping the end of the world is a long way off. That leaves us with no easy solutions, only messy politics filled with compromise and corruption. We have to take a stand that all our lives are meaningful and valuable. We have to share and work together and fight the impulse to “let go and let God” as some people say, or to look to the ultra-wealthy to bail us out with technological goodies.

The problem is wealth inequality, and the solution will be either taxation or the guillotine.

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