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If it's true then... Obviously, if a person's brain is affected by poverty, the market isn't going to offer them the equal opportunity when that opportunity ca
by xstartup 8y ago
If it's true then...
Obviously, if a person's brain is affected by poverty, the market isn't going to offer them the equal opportunity when that opportunity can go to the person (rich) whose brain is not limited by poverty.
UBI won't help them much! They'll still feel poor even if they've money to meet the absolute basics for a good quality of life.
I think a possible solution is to make it a law that a marriage is "must" and "can only" take place between a rich and poor person.
That way you can keep forcing equality at generation level till inequality is eradicated.
Achieving equality completely at "economic level" isn't possible unless you get done with the social signaling and things like class which can even stop a poor but smart person from rising faster to the top rung.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoWomen typically make less than men. They routinely marry men who are wealthier than them. These marriages have not magically resulted in gender equality. Your premise flat out doesn't work, even before we get into how ridiculous this proposal is.
- gaius 8y agoWomen typically make less than men. They routinely marry men who are wealthier than them. Maybe back in the 1950s when a doctor married a nurse and a businessman married his secretary. Nowadays it is far more likely that two doctors will marry, or two business executives.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoEverything I have read indicates that female doctors still typically make less than male doctors, etc. The gap is smaller, not gone.
- chongli 8y agoInstead of the doctor marrying the nurse it's now the surgeon marrying the pediatrician. People tend to marry others of similar status, not necessarily income level.
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- nilsocket 8y agoPeople have certain beliefs, ego pride, choices and many more. If you're not going to choose your life partner and you are being forced, what kind of life it is. It's better to stay unmarried than to be with someone you don't like (that constant struggle from the time you wake up). A human being accustomed to certain ways in their life, find unpleasant to see any kind deviation.
- xstartup 8y agoIf you're not going to choose your life partner and you are being forced, what kind of life it is. Then why are there efforts to force economic equality through taxation which also affects a human being accustomed to certain ways in their life? If you want to punish the rich, I've suggested a vastly superior way which is unlikely to be gamed.