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"Inequality" is a bad rallying cry because no two people are equal, and few would like to be equal to someone else. So what people mean by "inequality" is alway
by jeffdavis 10y ago
"Inequality" is a bad rallying cry because no two people are equal, and few would like to be equal to someone else. So what people mean by "inequality" is always something else, and varies in meaning from person to person. Even if you choose something concrete, like "equality of income", few really mean that an 18 year old should have the same income as a 45 year old.
Ordinarily a meaningless word is great for a rallying cry, but things like "equal" and "fair" are just too meaningless.
- djrogers 10y ago> few really mean that an 18 year old should have the same income as a 45 year old. Pretty sure a lot of the 22 year olds I saw at occupy rallies thought exactly that. I am a bad person for working for 20 years to get where I am without giving most of my money to people that haven't.
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- parenthephobia 10y ago> few really mean that an 18 year old should have the same income as a 45 year old Surely people don't believe that an 18 year-old shouldn't have the same income as a 45 year-old? A 45 year-old shouldn't have higher income just because they're older. In the UK, at least, we have laws about that sort of thing.