you know, i admit i've got it pretty good living in the heart of a white supremacist, colonial empire. but am i supposed to want to exchange it for packaging socks in a factory? movements that place labour at the core of a moral outlook frighten me.\

but i realize it's unfair to dump it off to some other entire universe, under conditions of almost literal slavery. so, automation.

it seems to be that the global economy is distributing resources more fairly than we'd like to realize. we're just looking at a different level of fairness than the economy is, if i can anthropomorphize the economy for a moment. see, when the economy sees wealth distribution, it thinks of it in terms of data collections, which correspond with rules put in place by modern countries, or perhaps trade blocks - or even more precisely blocks within trade blocks. so, it thinks that the level of wealth in spain should be closer to the mean level of wealth, which happens to be a much lower standard of living. meanwhile, conditions are improving very slightly in large, developing economies. so, it's a transfer of wealth from certain more wealthy areas to certain less wealthy areas. that's a more even distribution, in that sense. that process is also happening in more developed economies, but is taking longer to collapse because they're more developed. look at detroit.

of course, profits are being hoarded by an elite, so we speak of inequality - and are correct to. but it obscures the global homogenization of class that an open economy is allowing, making middle and working class conditions (finally) roughly comparable on a global scale. the open economy still has a lot to do in reshaping global wealth distribution to establish that comparison without being trivializing, but it is the trajectory that the global economy is heading in.

the flaw in understanding equality like this is that it conceptually separates control into two classes - a global controlling class and a global consuming class. the consuming class may be homogenized, perhaps even to the benefit of the controlling class, but it must be limited in resources to a fixed percentage, while the controlling class takes...control....of virtually all the resources. we must necessarily fall for people in other countries to rise, because we're budgeted to share a resource allowance.

to get to thinking about solutions that increase global living conditions without impacting living conditions in the empire requires discussing ways to go into the bank accounts of the controllers. i'd openly advocate that in as blunt terms as that.

once the resource allocation has been adjusted to more reasonable levels, a global homogenization of class sounds like an acceptable outcome. so, automation for all, then.

to put it another way, maybe you've seen the memes about rising income inequality in north america. the rising inequality is also a global equalization trend, in terms of how wealth is distributed to consumers.