Thanks for a tempered reply to my perhaps less-than-temperate post.
My point has always been that my motivations are not that different from most of my political opponents. Sure, I have a different utility function than them, just as I have a different utility function than those who feel that no-one should earn above $10K until we all do.
However, I don’t think that othering my opponents by making them out as evil or bad actors or the like helps my cause. And sure, there are actual bad actors, but they can be found in small numbers on all sides. (And like a legal system, I believe it’s better to mistakenly assume good intentions 10 times than mistakenly attribute malice once.)
I think recognizing that we are privileged is the only way of inoculating the left-wing movement from the truly evil power seekers who would seek to use our empathy to build a hatred-fueled force that mostly enriches themselves. That’s why I choose to use income as a measure.
You obviously have a better investment portfolio than I do. My ~1/10th of that (retirement - I’ve got no pension) is earning about 1%.
