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Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody This may be nothing more than pattern recognition or our attempt to interpret and orient ourselves within the cosmos. But does it have meaning? |
It provides reasons for why things are the way they are and how to alleviate suffering or encourage good living. Millions of people live in middle-class to rich lifestyles while billions of others live in poverty. I don't see this as God's Will or Plan; it is the cumulative effect of our individual drive to accumulate wealth and security.
Our species' best bet for survival and growth is to have all people living with the same quality of life and then elevating everybody's standard of living as one unit. In order to get there though, many of the wealthy would have decrease their standard of living; not so much that they couldn't live but enough to cause some turmoil.