Fairness And Equality In The Walking Dead

In a world as evolved and enormous as today’s, a striking question is whether we as humans can ever go back to a simple lifestyle. The simple answer is no; no matter how desirable and nostalgic a world without all the gadgets is. Ever since the industrial revolution, the world has run almost solely on industrial capitalism. The idea of a perfect socialist society with complete fairness and equality in its entirety is only found on TV shows like HBO’s Walking Dead. The world would need a substantial calamity and vast chaos causing a group of survivors to be forced to create their own society; in which fairness and equality might have a chance at success. Yet when given fairness and equality, will the people of that country become poorer or will they strive? In …show more content…
Vice versa in a self-sufficient environment, everyone gets an equal share of whatever the country produces. Also, it is human nature for people to be greedy, selfish, and jealous. When there is a group of people who put their personal interest before that of everyone else, fairness and equality could never work. Finally, when a government provides everyone a fair and equal share, people tend to lose the incentive to keep working hard to provide for not only the government but for themselves and their families. These people feel like they are entitled to receive certain items from the government. When people slowly start thinking like that, the society will stop progressing causing people to become poor and the country eventually being destroyed. Therefore, if everything was fair and equal, a country’s people would become poorer due to the inability for the country to be self-sufficient in the modern world, the self-centered nature of humans, and the lack of incentive to do their part as the government provides equally amongst