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If "just look around" is how you've reached a conclusion, then you need a lesson in human biases.
by Retra 10y ago
If "just look around" is how you've reached a conclusion, then you need a lesson in human biases.
- fche 10y agoFirst hand observation is sufficient for some conclusions. Inequality of productivity is obvious. In order to equalize income, those of greater-than-average productivity would have to have some of their wealth redistributed, ergo less free. It's not rocket science.
- Retra 10y agoWhat is obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to anyone else. If I look around and see something different, then what? I'm not disagreeing with your conclusions. Your previous argument is crap, and that should be obvious. This: "In order to equalize income, those of greater-than-average productivity would have to have some of their wealth redistributed, ergo less free." Is part of an actual argument. "Just look around" is not. But for what it's worth, I do not agree that freedom intrinsically requires total control of wealth. That it currently does is an artifact of our present culture. I don't even agree that the wealth is "theirs" to begin with.