> Why do we define justice as everyone having the same
Envy. But it is not a new feature of human nature. So my question is: Why is it only now (for about the last 100 years) such a popular and successful ideology? What has changed?
Is it mass media? Or is it not a new thing at all, but things happen at a bigger scale? Meaning, before you'd maybe get envy bursts that'd devastate a village or a tribe, and that'd be it, now you get it at the country and planet level?
I'd say it's more than that. Culture has changed and morphed into something where we feel we are entitled to a lot, just because we exist. I don't think our culture a few hundred years ago was like that. Did we see revolts in the medieval Europe because the king had too much? Not for that exact reason, as far as I know. Each king wanted more, for sure, but not the peasants, who didn't have much nor expected to have much ever.
Compare that to the American dream where literally everybody has the ability to get rich (in theory, but the point is that now the "peasants" in general want to get rich).
(it's important to understand that most revolts are silently crushed and never documented, and that even for those that were documented in their time we did not necessarily keep good track of those documents over the centuries)
Social inequality is listed as one factor among many. Do you know of revolts that were specifically about inequality? The ones I checked from the list were mostly religious, agricultural or nationalistic in nature. The ones I saw that could maybe be about inequality are due to the ruler being obnoxiously unjust or being unable to provide substenance.
I wasn't saying revolts didn't exist, just that they weren't about wanting to be rich.
Envy. But it is not a new feature of human nature. So my question is: Why is it only now (for about the last 100 years) such a popular and successful ideology? What has changed?
Is it mass media? Or is it not a new thing at all, but things happen at a bigger scale? Meaning, before you'd maybe get envy bursts that'd devastate a village or a tribe, and that'd be it, now you get it at the country and planet level?