Four in ten people in France cannot afford to leave their homes to go on vacation, a new study has found, an inequality that has persisted at the same level for the past 40 years. With poverty levels…
Personally I find that linking “making money” with “climbing the social ladder” is at the core of many of our issues.
Going even further, ranking each other based on factors like wealth, education, occupation, influence, etc. is degrading and leads to inequality, corruption and emotional/mental health problems, to name a few. The idea that success is measured almost exclusively by economic gain and social rank distorts human values.
Personally I find that linking “making money” with “climbing the social ladder” is at the core of many of our issues.
Going even further, ranking each other based on factors like wealth, education, occupation, influence, etc. is degrading and leads to inequality, corruption and emotional/mental health problems, to name a few. The idea that success is measured almost exclusively by economic gain and social rank distorts human values.