Equality a pipe dream

Re: “Sheer happiness for the 1 percent”, (PostBag, Dec 9).

Comrades Marks, Engels and Lenin decided that there should be a distribution due to uneven wealth in the old Russia, so there was a coup, or revolution by another name. The Tsarist regime was overthrown, replaced by a government of the people. Moscow Russians are perhaps better off but Russian peasants still are still where they were.

Comrade Mao decided to follow Lenin with a redistribution of wealth in China. So the army took over, and Mao incidentally was able to live in great luxury. Are rural Chinese peasants any better off today?

Fidel Castro staged a coup to redistribute wealth in Cuba, and he became a billionaire.

Both Russia, China, and of course Thailand have their oligarchs, the super rich. But then, the United States has Bill Gates, the first name that comes to mind, among other billionaires. There will never be equality when it comes to wealth, nor any kind of distribution. Wealth means power. No one relinquishes either willingly. It was, is, and will always be. Why should it be any different in Thailand?

Jesus gave it a try some 2,000 years ago as well. Look where it got him. No one is going to nail the world’s super rich to the wall, like it or not, and that’s the reality of life. We buy our lottery tickets and live in clouds of dreams.

MILLIONAIRE MANGO