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A sphere is the wrong shape in the first place since the majority of Earth is water. Divide the liveable land equally instead.
by guywaffle 9y ago
A sphere is the wrong shape in the first place since the majority of Earth is water. Divide the liveable land equally instead.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoIt's a metaphor.
- guywaffle 9y agoI don’t know what it’s phor(for)
- eru 9y agoIf you want to go down that road, you'd want to divide by value. (And to make it more efficient and objective, charge a (global) land value tax and use the proceeds to finance a (global) basic income. The average person will have a net impact of zero, but anyone using less land by value than the average will be reimbursed for that generosity.) But let's get back to the math.
- guywaffle 9y agoValue is subjective, area of land is not.
- eru 9y agoSubjectivity of value is a challenge to be solved, not an obstacle to capitulate before. Mathematics helps here, too. Game theory to be more precise. Of course, lots of the solutions to fair distribution problems have been discovered before mathematicians got a chance to invent game theory. For two people, the you-cut/I-choose procedure works. For lots of people introducing money is more efficient: just auction off all the plots to the highest bidders, and distribute the proceeds equally. Auctions are a great way to convert subjective valuations into fair numerical valuations. See eg things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_division https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_division
- guywaffle 9y agoSubjectivity can’t be solved from a subject point of view (mortal) since the person would be introducing biases from her/his subjective experiences.