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Widening gap between lower/middle class and upper class.
When you say worker co-ops, are they union-like? Unions will drive companies away.
Isn't it only inevitable under capitalism, though? What if we could change the fundamental labor for money model, and start helping things like worker co-ops develop?
Wealth gap is still very real, even if we say money isn't inherently valuable.Well for starters money is not a constant value. Almost every year our country experiences inflation, and thus the value of the dollar decreases. Back in the day, it used to be a nickel for a hot dog, and now we see dollar dog days as the best deal around. Still, the widening gap is somewhat inevitable right now, just because the rich tend to benefit from the "dirty work" of the poor, if you will. Also, the rich tend to benefit from the long term investments in the economy. Your first fault is your assumption of money and its connection to value. This is why economics is a social science and not in the mathematics dept only...Money is really a place holder and value is constant relative to other things and determined by the consumer not the price but class is determined by accumulation of money . With that understood would not a increasing spread between the upper and lower classes be inevitable? Especially if our society attempts to artificially support consumers in the lower class with $ even when they do not produce value in an economic sense? True value will continue to grow at the high end but not at the low endWidening gap between lower/middle class and upper class.
