I don't think the wealth divide or lack of equality is necessarily bad for society.

What if we had everything taken away from us and were all poor. We would certainly then have an equal society but that’s not really the answer.

I think in some way society flourishes by inequality, using it as motivation for social mobility and a force to make people work harder to improve the life of themselves and their families.

The problem is, we all compare ourselves to those around us. If the average working man of today who has a car, flat, gas central heating, kitchen appliances, phone etc compared himself to a lord of 400 years ago the working man would have a fantastic life.
The problem is we are always comparing ourselves to those around us. To quote Gore Vidal “ Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little”

Inequality is not the problem, there will always be inequality, it’s to do with fairness and the ability for all sections of society to be able to move forward in life should they choose to.

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

You dont like foreigners; you old xenphobe you.

You don't have to go that far back as even in the fifties the average working man didn't have a car or a phone and the annual summer holiday would have been in a B&B in Southend

Blaming it on the class system seems like an easy get out.

Growing up I saw some of my friend parents always have the new cars, fancy holidays, the latest TV's, designer cloths. There's nothing wrong with this, but they were generally the ones who didn't get money from their parents for deposits.

In my 20's I had friends who didn't go to uni as they didn't want to sacrifice a few years being poor, went travelling, got hire purchase cars etc. They are the ones who now can't afford houses.

Lot's of my friends got deposits from their grandparents inheritance. But these were generally people of modest means.

I was round a friends house the other day, her dad was complaining that his daughter would never be able to save up for a deposit whilst sat in front of a TV that cost £6,000.

Overpopulation is about birth rate, not mortality. You can only die once.

Which is entirely to do with improved access to cars, phones and travel - it’s nothbing to do with wealth inequality.

The average man in the fifties could buy a house on an average salary - the fact phones and holidays have got cheaper doesn’t even come close to offsetting that.