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As always, someone has failed to understand that averages are a poor statistical indicator of, well, anything.
by defterGoose 7y ago
As always, someone has failed to understand that averages are a poor statistical indicator of, well, anything.
- esoterica 7y agoAs always, someone has failed to exercise basic reading comprehension. See my other comment.
- lr4444lr 7y agoYou are not inherently a "beneficiary" simply because you're coming out marginally ahead in an unfair system anymore than a pretty girl at Auschwitz used as a rape slave living for 1 year instead of 1 week average for plain girls before being gassed is a "beneficiary" of inequality because she lives longer. Yeah, I went Godwin on you. Your original comment was unnecessarily confrontational against people as a class who have not only done nothing wrong, but many of whom may be actively trying to fix things.
- esoterica 7y agoHahahaha I point out that yuppies like you have a hysterical oppression complex and you respond by comparing yourself to an Auschwitz rape slave. Thanks for proving my point in the most spectacular manner possible. I'm going to undignify myself by walking through your example anyway: if the crime that billionaires commit is perpetuating an unequal distribution of wealth then you are, then the counterfactual setup is a more equal distribution of wealth, under which you would be worse off than you are. Therefore you are a beneficiary of inequality. The Nazis, on the other hand, were committing genocide, and the counterfactual is no genocide. Someone who gets genocided more slowly than average would still be worse off than if there were no genocide, therefore they are not a beneficiary of the holocaust. QED.
- lr4444lr 7y ago"Yuppie"? Guess again: by your own stated cutoff dollar amount, I'm in the "victim" group. Unless you want to rethink that cutoff.