The relative, Natural equality everybody would accept

Question from the Internet:

“Will people be happy in an equal society if they also want to “compete with the Joneses”?”

People can’t be happy in an equal society as we imagine, want to organize “equal”.

While in theory, everybody wants justice, equality, and especially those who feel oppressed, exploited support a socialist, communist type of society, after the initial honeymoon period — sweetened by taking the excessive wealth away from the rich — people gradually start to resent, hate forced, artificial equality to the point of rebelling against it, wanting to escape it.

We are all born with a unique, individualistic, self-serving, and self-justifying nature and we constantly compare ourselves to others. We gain greater pleasure from having more than others than the actual possession itself. If I have more than what I need but others have, even more, I cannot be happy with whatever I have.

This is what marketing, the “circus and bread entertainment”, and our whole consumerist Matrix is built on. This is also the explanation why a Communist regime needs oppression, a terror organization to sustain, while a capitalist society is sustaining itself as long as most people receive enough of the wealth (even if it is artificial since everything we own is through debt) and the necessary “circus and bread” to keep them content.

Equality — without suppressing our egocentric, individualistic nature — has to be relative, where each person mutually contributes to the well-being, optimal development of the whole collection with their best abilities, while they receive everything they need in order to continue to perform their own, unique, irreplaceable cogwheel role for the whole.

Everybody is equal in respect to doing the maximum they can do for the sake of the collective according to their conditions and abilities, and that they all receive the maximum they need, they deserve. And the competition, the comparison will not be exclusive, destructive like now, but we will compete in how much we contribute to the wellbeing of the whole, we compete to reach the 100% contribution from our own point of view, each trying to give their best.

Of course, this requires a unique upbringing, educational method to shift from the present, destructive, egotistic paradigm to this ideal, Nature-like, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing paradigm with its relative equality everybody can accept.