Considerations

An obvious characteristic
of Progressive Materialism is the socio-economic disparities between those who have progressed and improved themselves, or who have inherited such advantages, and those who have not.

Progressed and improved in this case refers to those who are economically advantaged or the wealthy. The economic disparities that are inherent to every culture are due primarily to the inequality of income for the human labor that produces every commodity and service. Theoretically the profits from any economic enterprise could be shared equally. But this is almost never the case.

It is true that some people do things that others cannot. Some people do more than others in terms of labor, stress, responsibility or time and energy. Education, intelligence and skill levels, experience, ambition, energy, imagination are all generally unequal. Earnings of the individual are based on the ability and skill of the worker in terms of efficiency, as opposed to equity. However every person working in an economic concern performs some job essential to the finished product or otherwise they wouldn't be there.

Capitalist enterprises do not pay for help they do not need. In fact, in order for any product or service to be produced, workers are necessary and would have to be paid whatever they asked, if the labor market were not almost always in excess of the jobs available, causing people to work for what they can get. This indicates that every worker has an equivalent importance in terms of the end product.

And yet as necessary as every individual component is, the wage paid can be astronomical for the owners and managers and barely a living for those at the bottom. Rather than the wage scale being set up to benefit the many in an equitable way, it is set up so as to produce the greatest efficiency of Excess and Profit. The hierarchical system inherent in Progressive Materialism is convenient to those on top.

Those with the most advantage will want to maintain the socially unequal economic systems while those at the bottom may desire a more equitable process, at least unless they themselves feel capable of arriving toward the top, or believe they have a chance of doing so.

In the system of Progressive Materialism, material acquisition is the means by which the value and consequence of the individual is primily established. The wealthy, as enjoying their many privileges, are not insensitive to the economic disparities. So in wanting satisfaction in their advantaged situation, and at the same time to feel good about themselves, there exists the institution of Charity.

Charity is a dynamic and function of the concept of Morality. Morality as opposed to Ethics, means the absence of absolute prohibitions, wherein anything is allowed relative to situation and circumstance. For instance murder may be allowed in war but not in civilian life. Almost anything goes on private property but not so on public. The rich can afford bail and top-notch lawyers while the poor cannot. The elite get special access to every kind of public function while the ordinary do not, and so on and on.

Morality is defined here as the means of controlling and mitigating the damage that is done, by the absence or limitation of prohibitions. Prohibitions as they exist are conditional, based upon the assessed consequence of the given subject.

Moral conduct is the mitigation of greater volitional capacities. Charity in keeping with the tradition of Morality, allows progressives to exploit both natural and human resources, and to accumulate unlimited material assets to the detriment of the environment and the exclusion of others, while giving to themselves good feeling, while they have so much more than others. Thus charity is the means by which the elite can hold select functions, wherein only the privileged and wealthy can afford to attend, and at the same time raise money for the charity of those who could never afford functions such as these.

Ethical conduct emphasizes prohibitions as opposed to volition. Prohibitions in this case would refer to the lessening of Excess and Profit, for some exclusive of others, and a more equitable distribution of all the products and services of a society as a whole.

Ethical conduct would recognize that every individual as a worker, has an equivalent importance in terms of every end-product. The social ambiance of the whole would take precedence over the more efficient socially inequitable economic systems and the select few.

Well such systems have been tried, and even now some somewhere are successful, something the capitalist media will never mention. Yes successful until they get burned out by the progressives. But mostly they tend to whither away by attrition, as the children grow-up and leave the sedate affairs of conservatism, for the big city capitalist lights and even fame and fortune.

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