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It's a worthy conversation. I've never understood the push for equality of outcome over equality of opportunity. I applaud people for starting that discussion.
by milsorgen 8y ago
It's a worthy conversation. I've never understood the push for equality of outcome over equality of opportunity. I applaud people for starting that discussion.
- Gibbon1 8y agoThere are two problems and they are different. One is opportunity due to preloaded factors. For instance in my case. My four grandparents were middle class and college educated. As were my parents. No shit that's an advantage I got that others didn't. The other is discrimination due to biases. The same biases that underlie affinity scams. As in this guys dresses talks and looks like Mark Zuckerberg, lets give his company $100 million vs that brown skinned lady who doesn't. While society should try to reduce these as much as possible they can't be gotten rid of completely perhaps even mostly.
- eindiran 8y agoI think the issue is deeper than equality of outcome and opportunity being two different problems: as we have seen equality of outcome implemented so far, it explicitly violates the conditions that need to exist for equality of opportunity. That is, the implementation of equality of outcome solutions has been exclusively (to my knowledge) based on providing additional opportunities to some groups and/or denying opportunities to other groups. Perhaps there are implementations of equality of outcome solutions that allow you to approximates both, but so far that doesn't seem possible.
- Gibbon1 8y ago> it explicitly violates the conditions that need to exist for equality of opportunity. That is a pipe dream.