More bollocks. Where does this idea originate? Nietzsche would tell you that
it is part of your slave mentality, indoctrinated into your culture from
Christianity. It assumes that you have no control over how other people in
the future will treat you. So you grovel, helping one and all in the lame hope
that they will aid you when you are incapable of helping yourself.
Elites in our societies do not follow this rule at all, and this is indelibly
evident in our world. By and large, the rich and privileged do not want to
help the poor. If they really did, then they wouldn’t be so rich, would they?
Indeed, the economic equivalent to this moral precept of human equality,
which is what the Golden Rule is all about in its essence, was most
thoroughly developed by Karl Marx and formed the basis of the somewhat
unjustly marginalized communist economic concept. The problem with
communism arguably was that greed and corruption could not be expunged
as intrinsic human characteristics. But today’s perception of retirement and
investment funds corresponds well with Marxist doctrine, as it gives the
workers a financial stake – if not control - in the enterprise capital. Many
other facets of globally accepted Western economic practice, such as worker
compensation, health care coverage, standardized working hours, retirement
income, also had their origin in Marxist doctrine, but it’s a rare and bold
politician who would acknowledge this academically undisputed heritage. The
first country to implement these sorts of reforms was the newly unified
Germany under Otto von Bismarck starting in the 1870s, creating the first
Sozialstaat.
Even in so-called liberal democracies the powerful do not readily accept
arrogance, criticism or inconvenience from the lesser privileged. If their
slave mentality did not blind them, people would see that the world does not
operate in a Golden Rule manner. The elites take what they want, as much
as they can manage, and they do not live by the same rules as the rest of
society. People in our world routinely starve, are malnourished, have inferior
educational or employment opportunities, lack proper police protection or
access to judicial redress, live in squalor, die from preventable disease. All
the while those with the financial resources to remedy much of this just buy
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