Wealth distribution

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I think that's a big bus you got there.

In all seriousness. The problem is that Western society has implicitly accepted the idea that the supremacy of the individual must not be violated and that expenditures are simply a form of expression. Thus things we can choose to be (and used to declare) off limits are instead increasingly shoved onto the free market to be bought and sold by a select few who want to accumulate such wealth in order to buy these new "products".

The truth is that there will always be a select few that simply have lots of money in disproportionate amount, this is capitalism. But the wave of neo-conservatism in the 1970s and 1980s has convinced people to award the wealthy with status in recognition of their wealth when really the wealth and its accompanying standard of living should be its own reward. By catering to the idea that there should be another option if you have the money, you only encourage a society where the vultures are rewarded for their shenanigans.

If you don't get what I am talking about, I am talking about things like box seats at sports stadiums and privately owned toll roads/lanes, which allow the rich to seclude themselves from the rest of society and ignore/ be ignorant of the infrastructure issues that only they have the clout to deal with.