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When will the people understand, that if you force the equality, it'll result in mediocrity? USSR has learned this lesson the hard way, so it is sad to see ho

When will the people understand, that if you force the equality, it'll result in mediocrity? USSR has learned this lesson the hard way, so it is sad to see how many well-off Americans a rushing head first into it voluntarily? Trust me, you won't like the results. You have a 200square meters house? Nobody needs that many space, and also there are so many homeless in Los Angeles. You take two rooms 24square meters each, and the rest of the house would be distributed among the needy. Do you like this perspective? This was the first thing done when Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, I'm not kidding. All in the name of equality.

mFixman 5y ago
Is it possible to have a debate about CEO payout without the dumb comparisons with the Soviet Union? Imperial Russia was an absolutist autocracy in theory for most of its history and in practice for all of it. Does being against despotism mean that I have to give a couple rooms from the property I don't own?
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
  No, because when you appeal to how unjust it is for CEO to be paid much more than workers from a factory, you are repeating the key piece of Bolshevik propaganda.
  - mFixman 5y ago
    The necessity of separation between of church and state was also a key piece of Bolshevik propaganda. Is it okay to say that it's unjust that a countries must be governed an absolute autocrat appointed by God?
q3k 5y ago
> This was the first thing done when Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, I'm not kidding. All in the name of equality. You should see what some states have done in the name of freedom and democracy elsewhere
therealdrag0 5y ago
There are cultural factors as well. IIRC there are places (Japan?) where it had historically been considered more unseemly for CEOs to get paid so much more than everyone else below them. But there’s no law of nature that says low performance goes with that.

mFixman 5y ago

Is it possible to have a debate about CEO payout without the dumb comparisons with the Soviet Union? Imperial Russia was an absolutist autocracy in theory for most of its history and in practice for all of it. Does being against despotism mean that I have to give a couple rooms from the property I don't own?

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
No, because when you appeal to how unjust it is for CEO to be paid much more than workers from a factory, you are repeating the key piece of Bolshevik propaganda.
- mFixman 5y ago
  The necessity of separation between of church and state was also a key piece of Bolshevik propaganda. Is it okay to say that it's unjust that a countries must be governed an absolute autocrat appointed by God?

q3k 5y ago

> This was the first thing done when Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, I'm not kidding. All in the name of equality. You should see what some states have done in the name of freedom and democracy elsewhere

therealdrag0 5y ago

There are cultural factors as well. IIRC there are places (Japan?) where it had historically been considered more unseemly for CEOs to get paid so much more than everyone else below them. But there’s no law of nature that says low performance goes with that.