Those are good questions to ask. I suspect that, as much as we might, ideally, want to aspire to everyone having access to the same quality of life, that the muckity mucks will cry "Socialism!" - or, at least, the American muckity mucks - much in the way they have protested a plan for nationalised health care. Never mind that we have had nationalised social security for ages, and no one complained. :P
So, if we set that idea aside for now - I suppose the quality of life we aspire to is much the same as what we have now, or just above it. I doubt there will be many - of any station - willing to go significantly downward from wherever their at; no matter that the next class down manages just fine at that level, the person higher up will think it's too dreadful to contemplate.
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Date: 2009-11-06 11:23 pm (UTC)So, if we set that idea aside for now - I suppose the quality of life we aspire to is much the same as what we have now, or just above it. I doubt there will be many - of any station - willing to go significantly downward from wherever their at; no matter that the next class down manages just fine at that level, the person higher up will think it's too dreadful to contemplate.