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The question might be asked, as to how many people in any given instance
would really be interested in true social equality. For the Democratic Capitalists the emphasis is on freedom and not on equality. The argument is that social and political systems which require the cooperation of all to promote equality of the whole are not free. This may be true in fascist socialist systems. But then the meaning of freedom can be construed to be the avoidance of onerous work, which may be designated in capitalist systems by educational or class level
and the work or starve incentive. Social responsibility which requires the conformance of the individual to societal norms and responsibilities which involves the consideration of others may not necessarily be as free as Capitalistic Democracies, but the individual enjoys certain degrees of self-esteem, integrity, pride and integrity.
It may be that the ideal of social equality is not a possibility in terms of the
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Progressive Materialism, based as it is upon hierarchies of social strata inherent in the concept of Excess and Profit. Since some individuals will consume more than others, be capable of producing more, be willing to destroy and exploit more and even to engage in murder and mayhem to have more; the most fundamental and prevalent of inequities are created which changes the relationship of humans to every aspect of their social condition and surroundings. A truly social equality would be wherein the many
functions necessary to the collective operation of a community were allotted by means of a lottery, such that the various jobs and professions were shared by all those equally, for limited periods of time. Thus any and everyone would be eligible for the most undesirable and desirable jobs equally. But because most jobs and professions require some degree of training this would make for an inefficient system. But efficiency aside, it must be assumed to be predictable that those with the worst jobs would be in favor of such a system and those who benefit the most from hierarchal inequality would never accept a system of social and economic equality.
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