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timbgray t1_izbc4bo wrote

Reply to comment by Base_Six in Amia Srinivasan, philosopher: ‘We must create a sexual culture that destabilizes the notion of hierarchy’ by Logibenq

Well, the wealth was created somewhere by someone, and the generic creation of wealth is ultimately manifest in our social hierarchies. Note the context of my comment was a response to a previous post. Of course, other factors impact our social hierarchies as well, our DNA being the most obvious example. I’ll also note in passing that ontologically competence is a hierarchy.

My basic point is that the majority of time, the vast majority, targeting “hierarchies” for almost any critical sociological purpose is aiming at the wrong target, because the fundamental cause of the general angst on display (which seems to be mostly self indulgence) is simply our nature as biological beings.

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Base_Six t1_izbiaeu wrote

I think a certain degree of wealth-based hierarchy is unavoidable, but there's an inverse relationship between income inequality and happiness that's been documented in numerous studies. Part of our nature as biological beings seems to be a strong negative reaction to what we perceive as unfairness.

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timbgray t1_izbmk0q wrote

I suspect that if we unwound that inequality, the unhappiness index would increase.

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