Inequality

The Pope said that the root of all evil is inequality.  Capitalists circled the wagons.  A counterpoint to the Pope is that the old Soviet Union eliminated inequality, but things were a mess.  So much for socialism.  The Cold War regime of communism was hardly socialism.  The word socialism was the veneer for corrupt, greedy people, i.e. the party bosses, to get rich while not really producing much of anything.  The problem with inequality, be it capitalism or communism, is greed.  Greed makes for an unjust inequality.  There will always be inequality, but communism has no answer or antidote for it.  It has no religion.  It allows for no dissent.  The freedoms that come with capitalism, allow for some solution to greed.  There is greed that comes with not paying just wages, or firing people simply to get a better bottom line profit statement.  There is also the reward that comes to the entrepreneur, the risk-taker, and plain good luck.  I think spirituality is the only solution to greed.  In my country people are trying to kill religion while at the same time complaining about inequality.  Go figure.