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Full Idea
It is hard to get worked up over wealth inequalities if no one is suffering from them!
Gist of Idea
If there is no suffering, wealth inequalities don't matter much
Source
Tuckness,A/Wolf,C (This is Political Philosophy [2017], 3 'Deprivation')
Book Ref
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.72
A Reaction
The more the poorer group resent the inequality, the more they suffer. When is resenting huge inequalities in wealth justified? It depends how the big wealth was obtained.