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What makes inequality bad? People aren't born identical in every aspect, is it bad that I was born smarter than much of the general population? Should I be dumb
by fondue 16y ago
What makes inequality bad? People aren't born identical in every aspect, is it bad that I was born smarter than much of the general population? Should I be dumbed down to make things more equal?
- afterburner 16y agoLet's stay away from talk of intelligence and genetic traits. This is about wealth inequality. And there is plenty bad when there is wealth inequality in a country, see examples of extremes of this in South America. An eroded middle class results in less democracy, more corruption, and social unrest. But I guess if you're rich enough, you can wall yourself off, hire an army, and ignore this. And in fact many extremely rich people in third world countries do exactly this.