Quote Mintball="Mintball"In effect, you say that: 'Oh well, it's always been like that and always will be', in which case, why try to improve the lot of one's fellow citizens?
Given who has agreed with your post, perhaps that tells you something.'"
In effect, I'm not saying that at all. According to yourself people are worse off than they were 30 years ago, citing foodbanks as a factor yet we've had them for a decade or so in their current guise and before that we had other, less efficient if you will, mechanisms to hand out food or other help.
Unfortunately/fortunately (depending on your viewpoint) it will always be the case that we'll have inequality, for a few reasons, the first one being that people are different. If you take 2/3/4 blokes/women from the same sort of background, train them up to do something, plumbing/mechanic/whatever I will bet all the money in my pockets (£7ish) that over a period of time they will all wind up having had different successes/failures based on luck, work ethic, health etc etc.
Then there's the fact that people are inherently selfish, they like other people to do well as long as it's not too well so it makes them look "inferior". I work for a bloody good company, it's German, the levels of bureaucracy are eye watering, but the overall package is hard to top. Anyway, our "bonus" scheme has been altered for next year and in the meeting to discuss this it became clear that one section were getting 1 rung up the bonus step compared to others, a non exact calculation showed this extra rung gave an extra £125ish before tax, on a "bonus" of £3k! There was no goodwill displayed towards them, they were all bloody bone idle who nothing all day but talk weddings and celebrity jungle (which they do) who only got the job because of how they looked! The people whining have almost no contact with this group, working in a completely different part of the plant.
Then there's MP's, unfortunately they say stupid things and make promises they can't possibly hope to keep, but then history says we should be wise to this so it's our own bloody fault. But I've never, not once heard a mainstream MP talk about equality, simply because there's no votes in it. "Yes, it's terrible that Mr Davis' plumbing business didn't work and mine did. Sorry, what was that, you want to give him some of my money so he can have my lifestyle?"
So, I suppose that's it really there's not enough votes in equality.