I think that people dimly perceive that as a human race, we have generated an enormous amount of wealth over the last one or 200 years. I wouldn't mind if some people were much richer than others if everyone were rich, but not everyone is rich. There are people in the world today who are super duper poor,. Even in advanced societies that should be able to do better.
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