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Haven't you read Paul Graham's essay yesterday? This seems a direct answer. The abuse thing is, among other cited circumstances, what could make a person not de
by narag 11y ago
Haven't you read Paul Graham's essay yesterday? This seems a direct answer. The abuse thing is, among other cited circumstances, what could make a person not develop natural talents. In other words: some people are set in the bad part of the deal since their childhood. So there's a lot in the inequality problem that's not caused by relative merits.
- striking 11y ago(Haven't read the essay.) That's true. So what can we do to fix that? And is fixing this particular cause (child abuse) the best possible investment to guarantee equal opportunity/ undo the unfairness of economic inequality?
- narag 11y agoSome days or weeks ago a report about inequality was released showing it's growing. I guess there has been a lot of concerned opinions in the media. So pg's essays (there were a couple of them) have tried to present a contrarian opinion: inequality is not good in itself but it's kind of a natural state or a good sign or something... I couldn't finish reading the essay. As much as I like most of his writings, this one seems terribly wrong to me.