Guys at the top keeping the thing stable, so the other guys are able to the physical work necessary; instead of everyone flipping the boat by being at one end?
Sounds about right.
You can probably accurately describe what happened to literally every communist society/economy as "flipping the boat"
It's ridiculous when people use a metaphor to describe a complex situation, then continue to think in that metaphor - it doesn't work.
If society is a boat, then we must be trying to find dry land - what the **** is dry land for society?
On society's boat, you can easily stand to piss over the edge, but to poop you have go inside the boat and then throw it out - this doesn't make sense!
You guys are all saying the same **** , "If the two people werent on top it would sink."
You are all clearly missing the point that the people at top are happy when they should be scared because they will eventually sink with the boat. The people at top should be doing something other than sitting on their asses watching them struggle.. In this picture they should atleast be encouraging them to take the water out. Or having them switch out when they get tired.
The way I live out my life would not change AT ALL if 5 000 000 less/more poor people died of climate change related disasters. I COULD help if believed there was an inherent value in human life. not saying this is not the case I could help out of solidarity too, but I don't feel that for them.