INEQUALITY!

Fellow peasants, workers, and other less-than-equals:  To Arms!

To the bloody barricades!

One for all, all for me!

We are Revolting!

Gimme! 

They keep saying all this and more like it on different blogs. And in letters to the editors, forums, even twits twittering their tweeters … it’s all the same. People vociferously (means noisily, sort of) demanding “Equality”.

Time now that someone stood up (moi) and became the backlash:  No Equality! Let it be known that I, Argus of the grubby fur and rampant teeth, wish it widely known that I do NOT want to be equalised. I’m a round peg in a square hole and that’s just how I like it.

To make us all equal would be to make the vast reaches of mankind poorer. No? Poorer, not richer. I’ve damned well worked for the little I have, and with (or without) your permission I would dearly like to keep it. Less equal than some, more equal than others, but me.

As would, I imagine, anyone who’s ever worked and been paid and made savings and invested those savings wisely, so that they grew.

But still you bleat and scream like soals of shavage sharks for the blood of the Capitalist—which if I were an omnipotent fiend I would gladly grant you.

THINK ABOUT IT if you are capable: what if you got your wish? How about if all the wealth (that includes every penny you’ve got too, you know) were gathered up into one big heap, and while swarms of accountants do the sums swarms of others of us gather the leftovers of us and herd us all into lines … then when the sums are done we file past and are each given our ‘fair share’ of the wealth?

That’s a Fair share, Toots—means your fully equal portion, no more/no less, just the same as every other man,woman, child on the planet. Can’t be fair unless we’re all in the boat, can it?

Will you be richer, do you think, or will you be poorer?

 

PART TWO

Now that you’re looking at your newly bulging bank account and licking your lips thinking iPod, BMW, girls, season tickets, girls, yacht, girls, champagne/beer/rum, girls and perhaps some girls — how long do you think you will stay as equal as someone who (say) buys a sawmill, invests in an oilwell, purchases a wee farm or opens a hotdog stall on Mainstreet Littletown—?

Other than politics, pull, blatant force, inheritance, or politics (did I mention politics? Bugger, it’s germane so we’ll mention it again) politics; that’s how inequality started in the first place.

Within a few weeks most of us will be busted back to bare butts while just a few would be once again a bit more equal. In fact, Toots, that’s how it all started in the first place. But wait, it gets better—

—within a generation (two at the most) and ceteris paribus (go look it up, I dare you) we will be right back to where we are today. So—

I DO NOT WANT EQUALITY!

 

Get over it …

 

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