equality is intrinsic diversity
talents and behaviors of beings
humans and a natural phenomenon in
societies where people act with
freedom the unjust is to impose the
equality
so let’s respect the diversity and
let’s celebrate inequality
frankly that’s all I have to
say but as I have the impression of
that today claim that the
inequality is not a problem can
be a bit shocking or provocative or
impertinent I’m going to ask you to be
benevolent with me and allow me to explain
why do I think that the struggle of so many
intellectual politicians or creators of
opinion for imposing equality in all
the fields at all costs is really
a fight against our own
nature that can cause the swing
of the fragile model of free society and
thriving in which we live and for that
they started singing is not a story
very brief the life of two children march and
victory but I will ask you to try
put yourself in the shoes of the characters
so that history can supply
greater effect because they reached their
records we can all be March and
victory
Let’s go there March was born in a country
called equality to all men
born in that month received the same
name the same from birth as
marked the law was not to be true that
that a name chosen for its
pairs freely that could print a
kind of special character those would be
intolerable
that same day in a neighboring country called
freedom a girl was born her parents
they decided to call her
soria because it was a name that evoked
success excellence effort in all
who listened to him tutored by
social workers March grew and it
He educated just like other children
he learned that victories should always
be shared with rivals and that the
only fair competition is that in the
that there are neither winners nor losers
He also learned to endure the pain of
play soccer with ten dates in the
boots
after all, he was born with
skills for sport was necessary
compensate for not committing injustices
with the rest of the companions more
slow and less agile
from very early in victoria woke up
what was to be the passion of his life
the farm within its possibilities
his parents spared no effort
so that victory can be studied with
best teachers in the best
schools after the effort and
víctor skills did the rest and
she grew up as a dancer and was accumulating
awards and honours
March work life began in the
occupation that was assigned by the
corresponding committee based on the
jobs that were available in that
moment for 40 years with the same
salary than the rest of the classmates and
was playing the occupations that
they were being assigned victory
he traveled all over the world dancing for
different companies eventually arrived
to found their own and their
shows enjoyed the favor of
public and critics and they came to the
fame and money with part of which
He opened his first school dance the
March working life ended when
fulfilled the deadline indicated by the law yet
he lived a few years a life
quiet and modest as a retiree with the
pension that will receive from the state the same
for all of course March died and
your belongings
also his small savings were
transferred to the contribution fund
social that had to redistribute them
among the members of your community
of course the children of March were
excluded from said distribution
it was necessary to promote equality of
opportunities
victory died old and happy surrounded
of children and grandchildren who helped
until the last moment the patrimony
accumulated all his life he divided
between them and a couple of organizations
charities that he chose with the hope of
that also from them could help
that other accomplices in their dreams their
goals
two very different looks true how many
we would want for ourselves and for
our children a life of total
equality of absolute suppression of
differences from the cradle to the
burial like the one the poor man lived in
March in that country called equality
many would seem horrible to be
absurd and intolerable for going against
of our own diverse nature and
unequal of human beings
and yet every day more and more
people who aspire to gain power
influence in our societies
they work to convince us that there is
at least one area of our life where
similar imposition of equality no
it is only necessary but it is
morally fair
guess what scope I refer to the economy
we must put an end to inequality
economic say politicians is not
true and it does not seem casual to me that this
is happening when poverty has
stopped being a problem for the
most of us who live in societies
free and prosperous like ours and
when the organization of happiness
affirms that we will assist in the eradication
of extreme poverty across the planet
probably before the year 2030
let’s take a good look we are about to finish
with the largest of the tests in all the
world and yet they tell us that the
problem is economic inequality
that is, some earn more than others that
some have more than others sometimes
Much more
is true but why should this be a
problem because it helps to be denounced and
to prevent
that certain people earn too much and
Who is nobody to say how much is
too much to what that definitively comes
I hate the rich because it’s unfair that
certain people earn a lot of money
for being excellent in the professions
who have chosen singers like bruce
springsteen or madonna honest joaquin
sabina and july churches actors like
George Clooney film directors like
pedro almodóvar sportsmen like
Christian ronaldo or rafa nadal and could
keep citing business designers
fashionable novelists architects all
they share talent passion for what
do and effort capacity
They have also become excellent in
occupations activities where the
competition is huge because then to
report that they earn too much money
it’s more the thousands or millions of people
who decide to give him is part of his money
I do not care much or little
to enjoy a concert vibrate in
a game of tennis or football or
get excited with a movie they do it
free and voluntarily because
understand and each of these
excellent professionals help do
life better and easier to others
people
why then should we avoid preventing
that they fully enjoy the fruit of their
success because we have to cross out their
obscene income when they have been
obtained precisely by serving us
everyone else providing us the
well the pleasure enjoyment the service
that we were looking for because in addition to
be unfair that some people do not
they only earn a lot
money but throughout a whole
life they come to accumulate great fortunes
because what is unjust must be just enough
be confiscated with wealth taxes
of entrepreneurs like bill gates or more
accurate whose innovations and creations
they have made our lives better and easier
to so many around the world
why should they be prevented from transpiring
fully if you want
that wealth to his heirs or to the
1,000 charitable purposes they choose
how victory did the country called
freedom who we work with a
Windows operating system or we dress
zara clothes or buy in amazon not
we are poorer because I have become more
strong today the president of amazon
yes they have made so rich
they have become so rich
because they have helped us all to live
rather better and that includes the
millions of people who charge a
salary working in any of its
companies and the rich already is because
I won a lot because I have a lot they do not have
the obligation to benefit the
society for having become rich not
have the obligation to benefit the
society for getting rich is
just the other way round they have become rich
because they have benefited society
first to society means to
all of us but would not have been done
rich
we must understand that in our
extensive broad market societies
some few
fortunately more and more people will be able
get to win and have a lot because we
will have helped many to win and have
more they will be able to win and have a lot
because they have not only led many to
win and get more because then what
it just has to be frying the taxes for
confiscate their wealth
perhaps we want a world where nobody
have the minimum incentive to create
improve the lives of others
a world where talent is punished
and persecuted instead of rewarding the
promoted as that country called
equality where power lived in March
if you think
Let’s play and imagine what that world would be like
ideal egalitarian seems goes beyond
say congratulations on the boots
ronaldo and messi
so we will match your game at the level of
other players with less talent
what do you think I just did not see but
good
we go with another we force that
springsteen and sabina sings in without
microphone like this let’s go to your
concerts your income will go down and win
the same as the rest of singers less
popular is a foolish truth is this
yes yes it is sure we force that
all of them pay the tax to the state
80 percent of what they earn and staff
total to them what else does it give them if they already earn
too true
yes true but think in a moment
please a society
so agree and it would be worth more
egalitarian but it would be one more society
fair
think about it because if you think not
they get doubts then is that the
problem is not inequality and for
Of course it is not
as claimed by a famous Nobel Prize winner
American economy
a society that puts equality before
freedom will not have any of the two
things but one that puts freedom
to equality will inevitably reach
greater freedom and greater equality
come to this point I have to tell you
rather confess that he has not been
sincere with you if you remember started
affirming that inequality is not
no problem and that the unfair is
impose equality in all areas
and at all costs and until now tried
explain why I think the
economic inequality can be a
completely fair and natural phenomenon
and I say it can be and I say good because if
there is a type of inequality that is a
problem a kind of inequality that is
found at the source of the soaring
income and the great fortunes of
certain people in our societies
if you do not intuit it, I’m referring to
to the inequality caused by the
favors and arbitrary decisions of the
political power because our society
is the biggest source of inequality has
been
and it’s still the granting of
special privileges on the part of
our governments to certain groups and
certain people or what is the same
our politicians use the power of
been to enrich a few to
cost of impoverishing us to all
the rest
as I explained before amancio ortega
he has become much richer than me
selling clothes all over the world
to me he has not made me poorer but
multimillion-dollar bailouts of the system
savings banks in our country
controlled by politicians and ruined by
the fraudulent management of their curators
hand-picked
yes they have left all of our
pockets to pay for their fixes and their
compromises granted
by the president of my region
country to the communication group that
publishes the newspaper on the internet that runs
his wife if they come out of our pockets
to enrich her and her company the
arbitrary business concession
friends of gigantic projects of
engineering and civil works with the guarantee
that if they are profitable
the gains are for them and that if
the losses are not, we pay them all
we do enrich a few
at the expense of resembling everyone else
you need to keep naming examples
because all this has happened and continues
happening in my country in Spain with
names and surnames that we can
find in newspapers
that and not another is the inequality that
we must denounce and fight
then we must ask ourselves can we finish
with her
frankly I think so but for
end this kind of inequality
unfair and immoral
all of us must fully assume
our inescapable obligation to act
as responsible citizens
permanently vigilant of power
political citizens who will never accept
for himself a privilege that he has to
pay another who will fail so much that we
grant as to those who receive it
citizens in short that never
they will support them with their vote
through political power they commit
promote or tolerate the favoritism of
crime and injustice
said well it is very true but
perhaps it is convenient to put feet on the ground
because be realistic because this is not going to
happen overnight
then until that day arrives there is
something we can do here now
Of course we do celebrate the joust
inequality as the natural fruit of the
diversity of talents and behaviors
of free men and women
let’s understand that said inequality
will necessarily derive results
different for each person who in
some situations lead to
inequalities income differences and
of wealth totally just and natural
and we hope that someday we will all be
able to stop envying the
triumphant and dare to dream and
live with strength illusion our own
lifetime
many thanks
[Applause]
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