Equality and inequality are a topic that has been talked about since ancient times. The need for equality is the cry of the lower class to the upper class. Just like the people outside the wall and the people inside the wall in Qian Zhongshus The Besieged City, people in the city feel unfair and want to go to the city. Outside, people outside the city thought that they were not waiting, and wanted to enter the city.
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01. Bystanders of power
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▲ Britney Spears when she was young
Britney Spears quickly rose to fame after debuting in the late 1990s. She was once the most influential pop queen and national icon. Because of her sweet appearance, she was also called Britney Spears. As a pop superstar, it is difficult to understand that unequal treatment will happen to her. In the eyes of most of us, Britney is an upper-class elite. status, material wealth, special rights, etc.
But this unimaginable event still happened. In this 23-minute trial speech, Britney complained that she was forced to work intensively and could not rest. I went on tour in 2018, but I was forced, and my management told me that if I didnt go on this tour, I would have to find a lawyer to help me with the lawsuit. According to the contract, my management is have the right (meaning the power) to sue me.
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▲ Britney and Britney are still together, only used as a picture for the article, showing respect
The information is shocking and jaw-dropping. At the same time, some of these videos and pictures of Britney were circulated freely, secretly photographed by various paparazzi, auctioned off by her husband Federline, TV and tabloid headlines were full of topics that made fun of her, and in the documentary, JIVE record senior market Director Kaiman said with a sarcastic smile, Its really simple and very interesting to destroy a young, beautiful, and talented star.
No one stood up and reflected on the unequal treatment she suffered, but thought it was an interesting thing. Compared with the encounter, the casual ridicule, wanton abuse, and random spreading of bystanders make people feel more trembling. People who have a little power over her around Britney or not around her can trample on her wantonly. For her at that time How precious is equality. Britney has no equal control over her own life, let alone ordinary people!
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02. The story of God and man
Whoever was the first to fence up a piece of land, say without hesitation, This is mine, and find some very simple-minded people to believe him, is the true founder of civilized society. Just like the British colonization of the American continent in the 17th and 18th centuries, they set foot on a piece of land, waved their arms, and shouted This land was discovered by the great empire on which the sun never sets, and this territory belongs to us, and confidently declared Announcing their achievements to the world, the most important thing is that a group of simple-minded people believed it, and they believed it for quite a while.
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▲From the 17th century to the 19th century, the famous British American continent
For Gods, the issue of coexistence with humans will never be considered. What should be considered is to always walk in front, let people walk behind, reveal the inviolable back, and block the possibility of people surpassing Gods. Sometimes what makes people desperate is not the torture of their own organisms, but the destruction of the will and the trampling of the spirit.
God seals a private secret with words, and no one knows what the true meaning behind the words is, just like a well-planned murder scene, what can be seen on the surface is only what the murderer wants you to see.
The loss of the truth lies in the inability to prove the true and false attribution of the facts. The words Zhongkou Shuojin and Zhongkou are just talking about words, just like the public says that the public is right, and the woman says that the woman is right. At that time, the aborigines of the American continent could not prove that they were the first group to stand on the land of the continent, and they could not get the support of the outside world. After all, the so-called empire on which the sun never sets had already claimed to be the first batch of civilization creators in the American continent. It doesnt help to set things right anyway.
From steam engines, light bulbs, the Internet... to the current blockchain, and other technologies that will appear in the future, ordinary people have equal opportunities to enjoy things that only a few people could enjoy before. The advent of steam engines allows ordinary people to take trains, the appearance of light bulbs allows farmers to look up at the moon on rainy nights, the emergence of the Internet allows ordinary people to understand the truth around the world, and the emergence of blockchain makes centralization less serious.
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03. The Broken Mirror
There are several explanations for the shattering of the mirror. One falls into the category of superstition: the idea that a broken mirror brings bad luck is still horrified. But another meaning of the broken mirror is breaking the rules, detaching from the established paradigm, breaking the mirror means breaking the rules.
Eric Maskin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007, was born in New York, USA. He is a humble and enthusiastic person. When he learned that he won the Nobel Prize, Maskin did not express much excitement. And surprised, in an interview with Adam Smith, the editor-in-chief of the Nobel website, he still said very humbly that Herwich is the father of mechanism design theory, I am honored to be awarded this award together with Herwich and Myerson. Awards, in fact, what I have achieved is only standing on the shoulders of Hervitch.
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▲Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Economist
The value of life is not only in how many honors you have won. For Maskin, his honor is enough to put down a basket. In an interview, when he talked about the topic How to view inequality in the economy?, he summed up the essence of the Economic Art movement: using the cheapest and simplest natural materials-shells, metals, stones, etc. as the medium of economic operation , to exchange and measure, aiming to get rid of and break through the constraints of established old economic laws, and redefine economic concepts and rules.
Everyone is a part of the economic operation, regardless of occupation, age, region and gender. The economy should not be a weapon to create inequality, so what causes economic inequality? “Economic inequality is capital consumption in the signaling process. People consume a lot of capital just to convince others that they are trustworthy. This is signaling, and blockchain can greatly reduce signaling.” Maskin said.
Maskin and Marx both advocate the redistribution of wealth, but they are quite different. In Marxs view, the rate of return on capital will fall indefinitely, eventually approaching zero. Maskins conclusion is exactly the opposite, the return on capital will always be greater than the economic growth rate. His research mainly reveals that inequality is growing. So when asked whether blockchain can solve inequality, he said that reducing inequality is the most exciting ability of blockchain.
