Things that make you go hmmmm……
Have you ever stopped to wonder if all the evil in the world is the result of malcontent? Wanting what you don't have? Wanting something you can't have? Wanting more than what you already have? There's a line from The Matrix about the Merovingian. Neo asks, "What does he want?" and the Oracle replies, "He wants what every man with power wants. More power."
I guess I'm thinking mostly of the rich and powerful, 'cause it's one thing to be working three jobs to feed your family and to want to only have to work one. It's something else to want a third house in Tuscany cause your second house in Bordeaux isn't enough. I'm not sure where the cut off point is. There are certainly plenty in the middle class who are guilty, but does wanting a BMW instead of a Mazda count? I don't know. A Bentley instead of a Mercedes probably does.
A while back I read an article about the monstrous yachts the insanely wealthy own and some of them bitching because some harbors in the Caribbean aren't deep enough for their yachts to pull up pier side and they actually had to endure the inconvenience of taking a launch to shore. We're not talking about a rubber dinghy. The launches were full sized luxury speed boats. (When you're spending 15 million on a yacht what's a few hundred thousand more?) That definitely counts. I'm sorry, but there's some psychopathology there.
One would think wealth distribution would be relatively easy to get your head around, but it's always more complicated than it first appears. There are never easy answers, but one of the characters in The Golden Compass got me thinking along these lines. And they say fantasy is just fluff...
Oh, and if the movie does only cover the first book and it ends where the first book ends...people are going to be ticked.