Is it alright to be a capitalist with all forms of wealth?

In terms of money, the old are generally wealthier than the young. We accept that the young need to work hard, take risks, and accept loss in order to build their wealth. The old are not considered responsible for this process.

In terms of health, the young are wealthier than the old. Should the young have to make sacrifices for the old that the rich do not have to make for the poor?

In nature, in ecosystems and by the principles of evolution, the young have more value than the old, and the healthy have more value than the rich. Shouldn’t the cultural economics of a society express this? And if old rich people insist that young healthy people take a vaccine that might harm them (risk) in order to protect the old and weak, is that not saying that the rich have more value than the healthy?

I fear that nature’s backlash to the cultural distortions caused by decades of industrialized greed is going to be staggering… biblical even.

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