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How do you define ‘just’? How can equal outcomes ever be attained? I played a lot of baseball, but there are only so many slots on the Yankees.
by protomyth 9y ago
How do you define ‘just’? How can equal outcomes ever be attained? I played a lot of baseball, but there are only so many slots on the Yankees.
- jakelazaroff 9y agoGP's lottery example was meant to show that even if equal opportunity is achieved, it's entirely possible to decouple compensation from work. One example of a proposed solution is a limit on the difference between the lowest and highest salaries in a company.
- protomyth 9y agoBy some random chance, that much like any form of luck, is well understood by most people. What value is this proposed solution and how is it ‘just’. Sounds a lot like people don’t understand the lessons of capping salespeople’s commissions.
- nhaehnle 9y agoSales commissions are an interesting example. A hard cap can probably have bad psychological effects. But squeezing commissions down overall (by reducing the percentages or some other approach) is unlikely to have the same bad effect.
- protomyth 9y agoYou know, all of your solutions try very heavily to discourage people for actually doing things. Forcing equality of outcome seems to require punishment for any hard work. I would rather not live in the world of Harrison Bergeron.
- nhaehnle 9y agoWhere do you get the "very heavily" from? I think you're imagining things that aren't there. Apart from that, you may be suffering from Status Quo Bias.
- protomyth 9y ago"squeezing commissions down overall" is very heavily discouraging people, ask IBM. Nope, "equality of opportunity" is a great thing. I just don't believe "equality of outcome" is achievable and further believe it is detrimental to society as a whole. We should teach our children not to envy and working hard is a component but not a guarantee of success.