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True equality of outcome is where no one’s outsized effort can produce an outsized return. This is not obvious to “any sane empathic person” in fact it seems q
by zaroth 8y ago
True equality of outcome is where no one’s outsized effort can produce an outsized return.
This is not obvious to “any sane empathic person” in fact it seems quite controversial and would seem to involve a terrifying level of government control in each and everyone’s lives and livelihood.
- merpnderp 8y agoThe natural consequences of equality of outcome have already been nicely summed up in this piece of literature. "the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
- AlexB138 8y agoOr, perhaps more viscerally, in this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
- Iv 8y agoMy... The strawman escalated quickly. From semantics to gulag in 2 messages. One must really hate the idea of a fair society when one equates equality with the crippling of society.
- Iv 8y agoAnd the natural consequences of freedom have been summed up by Sade who argued that without the freedom to kill someone else, freedom remains limited. Hence the reason who no one makes one single idea the only absolute moral goal of a society. I have yet to find someone who argues that therefore, we should consider freedom a dangerous ideal.
- pacala 8y agoNot-so-child-nursery-rhyme from behind the Iron Curtain, in a world fraught with terrifying levels of government control. The translation loses the childish rhythm, for which I apologize: Those who are diligent and hardworking have everything they want, Those who are lazy and absent from work have it all the same.
- Iv 8y agoSimilar outcomes != true equality of outcome. Before imagining some dystopia where government impose the same lunch menu to everybody, start by imagining a government that would fund healthcare enough so that life expectancy could be unrelated to parents' income. That would be a fucking good start.