As a reminder, this is the original claim: > Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair. I had a

As a reminder, this is the original claim: > Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair. I had asked for an explanation of why this should be so. Your example, "being forced to work in the cotton fields for free", is only rhetoric - it does not actually address the question. There are an infinity of circumstances that would involve "everyone getting the same amount just for existing" that do not involve "being forced to work in the cotton fields", "being forced to work", or indeed "being forced (to do anything)". I find it interesting that in all the replies to my query, none have really been able to provide anything approaching an answer. The closest (in my opinion) is [0] by aeternum, but that boils down to saying that it is unfair if things don't progress as quickly as they could, but doesn't explain why - this in itself seems pretty radical, when made explicit (hopefully I haven't done too much of an injustice in my paraphrasing). These claims are made boldly, but the rationale seems more difficult to tease out. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215835