About inequalities

I changed my mind on inequalities.

I realized that I was against inequalities because it is the politically correct thing to say.

How can you not be against inequalities when you see super rich people and people on the street?

But when I look at nature, inequality is everywhere. The footprint of an elephant can’t compare to the footprint of an ant 🐜 🐘. Even within the same species, not all individuals have the same access to resources. The trunk has access to more resources than the branches, but the leaves have more access to the sun. ☀️

There is so much wisdom in nature 🌱. It’s the result of millions of iterations to find the right balance ⚖️, and that keeps evolving all the time as the environment changes 🦕.

I want to learn more from nature and take inspiration from it. That’s why I’m now embracing inequalities.

Inequality can’t exist without the concept of quantity, which itself cannot exist without a common unit of measure 📏.

But nature cannot be measured with a single measuring stick. It has a multitude of dimensions. We are nature. We are multidimensional beings.

This made me realize that being against inequality only makes sense in a human society that has reduced everything to a single dimension, incapable of seeing and acknowledging the beauty of life in all its dimensions.

It’s only once you start reducing multiple dimensions into one, that you can start comparing, ranking, competing, and that inequalities emerge.

That’s why I’m not against inequalities anymore. I’m just against a world that has been reduced to a single measuring stick, a single currency, a single way to recognize everyone’s contribution.

Once you introduce other dimensions, inequalities become irrelevant. If you take into account someone’s time contribution to your community, then Elon Musk’s billions of dollars don’t matter anymore. He doesn’t have, for example, a single token of the Commons Hub Brussels and he won’t be able to come cowork there.

We all thrive in some dimensions and less so in others. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. That’s what makes us all interdependent. That’s why we need to collaborate.

Your talent, your contribution is unique and sacred. It can’t be measured with a single measuring stick, it cannot be compared or ranked. Once you accept that, other people’s privileges and inequalities won’t matter as much anymore.

The key is to find the community that can recognize your contribution and that can fulfill your needs. A community that will not force everyone’s contribution to be measured with a single measuring stick as a condition to get access to shelter, food and care.

How can we open our minds and our hearts to many more dimensions? How can we properly recognize and value everyone’s sacred contribution?

Fighting inequalities means that we are de facto accepting to be reduced to a single currency. Let's start new ones and let's make inequalities and privileges obsolete!