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Excellent point. It's one thing to be in favour of a rising standard of living for everyone - as a right-leaning guy, I can honestly say that I really do want e
by core-questions 7y ago
Excellent point. It's one thing to be in favour of a rising standard of living for everyone - as a right-leaning guy, I can honestly say that I really do want everyone to be able to do more and to live better on this metric.
The problem is viewing things through a lens of equality-as-goal, because it's basically just pushing for a race to the bottom. No place more equal than everyone in the mud.
- dictum 7y agoThough my metaphor is hyperbole, I can't stop thinking that this is the same as raising the standard of living of two homeless individuals by paying a small amount (perhaps charged per distance) and asking them to carry you around town in a sedan chair. It's an improvement (they have no other source of income) and it's all voluntary; they might do enough miles/hours to leave the streets, or they might never earn enough to do so and just keep doing it until somebody devises a cheaper process to carry those who eat the extreme opposite of gruel.