t Egalitarian ideal as a noble lie

t. Egalitarian ideal is a noble lie

I asked how a doctor and a garbage truck driver could be equal in their profession (not in their humanity or as people to be clear). Sure one could assert that without the garbage truck drivers, our cities would have a medical / health epidemic on our hands comparable to that of the black plaque. They would probably be correct in their assertion, even with sanitation considered. However the amount of training, work and effort that goes into practicing medicine requires a lot more effort, and can not be so easily trained as One would hope for.

So if we are to award the same status to both professions, we lower a necessary pursuit's institution to the point where it's not worth working. Despite making a comfortable salary, a doctor's incentive isn't solely to make $$$. It would be much easier to become a paper-pushing upper middle management type to do that, unless they were starting their own private practice / hospital etc - in which doubles the stress. This is where the danger of the egalitarian ideal comes from, in the covered up cracks, the invisible disincentives to hard work, ones which already have little to no incentive in pursuing outside the fulfilling (I imagine often stressful as well) work and status it affords.

That's just a brief, poorly thought out example from the top of my head. My main concern is that people, inside their idealism, don't think of the possible downsides of their ideologies (bordering on cults) they follow. Everything is set in stone for them, even if you were to destroy their argument, in their pathos, they would double down on it and reject all new evidence. Even ideologue Capitalist types are guilty of this behavior. They'll do something like advocate for opening the border to third world migrants, in hopes of exploiting their labour for short term profit boosts, for those migrants are often ignorant of the law and the country's wages. Sure it'll work for the short term, and often dramatically, with extra gains in the stock price for public companies as well. But then crime increases, infrastructure strains and people who have been displaced in work, will go broke in competition - for they can only work minimum wage and no less, they cannot compete with slave-like labour. The government in turn, finally raises taxes dramatically on everyone, and those profits are wiped out. It's never direct, and often goes unnoticed by the public at large, things such as 'carbon tax' or some other general issue unrelated to industry, but affects it nonetheless. Those two-bit robber barons end up actually losing their money in their stupidity - damage to property, insurance goes up, theft, fraud etc etc. The most damaging? In their avarice, they unintentionally garner support for socialists and sympathy for commies.

Thus why I began writing a raw draft of 't. Capitalist Pill', in an attempt to make an already broken system more efficient. It's not broken in the sense that it doesn't work or that it's ineffective, it's broken in the sense that people think it's broken, become demoralized and give up trying to better their lives in society - a self-fulfilling prophecy. Capitalism then (rightfully) becomes a scapegoat for society's ills, and the damaged and extreme ideologies come to fruition or at least, begin to seed. 19th century robber barons were smart enough to at least try to help the people of their nations, not extend a hand to foreign lands. In their attempt, the people, who saw that they were at least making an effort (even if it was for historic remembrance and status), lauded and welcomed their efforts and trusted them to utilize their wealth as they saw fit.

The egalitarian ideal has somewhat embedded its ugly face into Western Civilization and must be stamped out. To do so, we must focus our efforts on replacing it, which can only be achieved by lifting people out of poverty and connecting them under one culture. Which is better than the alternative, seeing everyone equal in poverty and misery.

"Americans are so enamored of equality, that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." - Alexis de Tocqueville

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