Economic theory has gotten more and more important in the latest century. The degree to which we value products or services that can generate money has become larger to the expense of other values like moral values or environmental values.
Because money is a relative thing, with that I mean the power obtained through the possession of an amount of money is relative to what other amounts of money other people have. Because of that, the power each individual has, has decreased when the difference in money between the rich and the poor has increased. Even if the poor has more money, they can buy less.
This is a problem because money is also more important if you have less power from it. Basically if you can’t buy any food then money is very important and if you are rich it really doesn’t make much difference if you get more.
Therefore to get a sustainable society with less focus on money, we have to reduce the difference of money between people. If not, we all become slaves with a few dictators.
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