Today's China is far more unequal, with billionaires and poor, than Mao's China where everybody was destitute, but
nobody would argue Mao's equality was superior.
"Yet for many people, from New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to
President Barack Obama to Pope Francis, income inequality is a curse in
need of a cure, as there is today said to be an intolerable measure of
such inequality."
The politicians are self-serving opportunists. The Pope may be just a fool.
"Alexis de Tocqueville saw it coming:
“The sole condition which is required in order to succeed in
centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love
equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of
despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced … to a
single principle.”
Get people to believe you are seeking the utopian goal of equality of all and there is no limit to the power you can amass."
Exactly.
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