The Inequities

Inequities plague us like The Furies.

Income inequality. Gender inequity. Marriage inequity.  Contribution inequity. Crime inequity. Education inequity. Effort and work inequity. Saving inequity. Responsibility inequity. There are a lot of inequities out there and solving one is going to be inadequate. But the effort on the part of politicians to subdivide--and conquer--the population will, to some degree, be successful as they segment us into the two camps of, one, "I care fiercely about this topic" and, two, "I could not care less about this topic on a national level." So the politicians cleverly divide and pick up the intense shards, leaving the general group behind, until they have collected a number of tiny subsets adequate for a majority, or perhaps a plurality.

But I think they are missing a great opportunity: The generational inequity. There are simply too many old people making too much of a demand on everyone else with health insurance and social security. Now there would be a cause.