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It's not a straw man. I'm not saying that any argument for income equality is tantamount to communism. I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and s
by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's not a straw man. I'm not saying that any argument for income equality is tantamount to communism. I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit. So the problem is whether ideas compete on merit, not income equality. Income equality is neither necessary nor sufficient for those other things.
Regarding Brin, I don't think he has as privileged a background as you seem to believe. He had a pretty humble beginning, beginning with his birth in Soviet Russia (where his parents were discriminated against for being Jewish), after which he immigrated to USA at age 6:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
- danhak 11y ago> I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit. And I don't dispute that at all. What I am saying is that society's prosperity is optimized somewhere between total equality and extreme inequality, and that we seem to be drifting further away from that point.