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I'm open to learning about moral and political philosophy. I will check out Nozick, Rawls and Mill - thanks for the pointers. Meanwhile I am failing to grasp h

• rapind 6y ago
  If we can acknowledge that societie's rewards aren't directly proportional to work ethic (Bezos works hard sure, but 5,000 times harder?), and yet everyone participates in a society that enables these rewards. Think of every civil service, roads, consumers buying your stuff, the fact that brigands aren't simply looting your factories and stores etc. Fortunes are built on the shoulders of everyone who does and has contributed to society. So if you accept the above statement we can discuss what people are entitled to coming from the same place. If you don't accept the above (many don't, not judging) then we we'll be stuck on that and won't get any further discussing entitlement. It's not about doling out money to lazy people. That's become a bit of a trope. The American dream is dead. If you are born into poverty then the odds of you getting out of poverty, regardless of how hard you work, is vanishingly low. Sure there are lazy people but I would argue that it's impractical to try and figure out a system that weeds them out at scale, and then you're stuck with half assed policy that does nothing or benefits a bunch of smart greedy pricks instead.