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Why should we structure our society so that, for the average person, self-sacrifice is the only way to survive, much less get ahead? So, we should
by pdx 16y ago
Why should we structure our society so that, for the
average person, self-sacrifice is the only way to
survive, much less get ahead?
So, we should structure our society so that you can get ahead without sacrifice? Do you get to be ahead of me or do I get to be ahead of you? I just want to be clear which of us gets ahead of the other one, what with neither one of us sacrificing anything.
- georgieporgie 16y agoDo you get to be ahead of me or do I get to be ahead of you? You could get ahead of where you were last year.
- steveklabnik 16y agoYou could both move forward together, rather than ensuring that someone is always ahead and another is farther behind... A rising tide lifts all boats.
- grammaton 16y agoIf it's evenly distributed. The benefits of capitalism are very clearly not evenly distributed.
- steveklabnik 16y ago+1. Just saying that 'either I'm ahead or I'm behind' is a false dichotomy.
- drndown2007 16y agoAnd what exactly is going to make that tide rise? Nothing is free -- everyone has to work. We have to sacrifice our time and energy to survive and have some comforts. There's no way around that one.
- swift 16y agoSure, everyone has to trade time and energy to obtain their needs and wants. That doesn't mean that the details of the transaction as they stand now are justified.