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Who's "cheating"? If they're actually cheating, let's take away their unfair advantage. But let's not fuck over everyone making over $x because we don't like ho
by sportanova 11y ago
Who's "cheating"? If they're actually cheating, let's take away their unfair advantage. But let's not fuck over everyone making over $x because we don't like how some percentage of that group do it
This vague idea (which seems to be incredibly popular) that "everyone with more money than me took advantage of poors and cheated" is unfounded
- sangnoir 11y agoI could have been clearer. I did not mean to suggest that everyone in the 1% cheat, but merely stating that whatever natural/inate advantages that the top 1% possess can be (and frequently is) enhanced using less than legal/ethical means - whether it's sports, business, or wealth. Society needs to address this unfair advantage (analogous to doping). This is not a new idea, the penultimate paragraph addresses this directly by quoting Smith: Smith warned against local trade associations which were inevitably conspiring “against the public…to raise prices,” and “restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise…occasion a very important inequality” between occupations.
- sportanova 11y agoThe operating assumption seems to be "not all 1%ers cheat, but most of them do". I don't see evidence for that. My other problem with these arguments is that they seem to point to some bad behavior, and the solution is usually higher taxes, that punish everyone, not just those supposedly engaging in the bad behavior.