I really am not sure. Maybe it all started since we began to trade resources by barter?
(which also stirred up some "unfairness".)
from wikipedia
"Economists since the times of Adam Smith (1723-1790), looking at
non-specific pre-modern societies as examples, have used the
inefficiency of barter to explain the emergence of money, of
"the" economy, and hence of the discipline of economics itself.
[3] However, ethnographic studies have shown that no present or
past society has used barter without any other medium of
exchange or measurement, nor have anthropologists found evidence
that money emerged from barter, instead finding that gift-giving
(credit extended on a personal basis with an inter-personal
balance maintained over the long term) was the most usual means
of exchange of goods and services.[4]"
So when did the idea of money start?
from wikipedia
"The use of barter-like methods may date back to at least 100,000
years ago, though there is no evidence of a society or economy
that relied primarily on barter.[12] Instead, non-monetary
societies operated largely along the principles of gift economy
and debt.[13][14] When barter did in fact occur, it was usually
between either complete strangers or potential enemies.[15]
Many cultures around the world eventually developed the use of
commodity money. The Mesopotamian shekel was a unit of weight,
and relied on the mass of something like 160 grains of barley.
[16] The first usage of the term came from Mesopotamia circa
3000 BC. Societies in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia
used shell money – often, the shells of the cowry (Cypraea
moneta L. or C. annulus L.). According to Herodotus, the Lydians
were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver
coins.[17] It is thought by modern scholars that these first
stamped coins were minted around 650–600 BC.[18]
Song Dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money
The system of commodity money eventually evolved into a system
of representative money."
At any "true" way that now we have potential value of resources
(money). God only knows(sure)! It is a monstrous problem.
When did the rise in accumulation of money start to become
uneven and we had a wealthy, middle, and lower incoming of
money?
from wikipedia
"After World War II and the Bretton Woods Conference, most
countries adopted fiat currencies that were fixed to the U.S.
dollar. The U.S. dollar was in turn fixed to gold. In 1971 the
U.S. government suspended the convertibility of the U.S. dollar
to gold. After this many countries de-pegged their currencies
from the U.S. dollar, and most of the world's currencies became
unbacked by anything except the governments' fiat of legal
tender and the ability to convert the money into goods via
payment. According to proponents of modern money theory, fiat
money is also backed by taxes. By imposing taxes, states create
demand for the currency they issue.[21]"
and this article.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/110215/brief-history-income-inequality-united-states.asphttps://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/110215/brief-history-income-inequality-united-states.asp
I have the ability to imagine a scale
and when the scales become uneven by gravity and the "material"
you put on it, at a certain point of adding to one side more and more you get a
speeding up of drop , on the weighted side, where it just collapses to the ground/table.
So maybe the saying "The rich are robbing ( criminal offense )
from the poor. I guess evolution put selfish needs ahead of
community needs in the Homo Erectus
That's why I have become a rebel, a Robin Hood of modern day.
War has been declared , but it is just beginning. The masses are
beginning to rebel against this humongous unevenness and the choices
the wealthy make. Like Corporation /Government, Military
industrial complex, use of energy, and abrupt climate change.
“Give me liberty or give me death."
― Patrick Henry