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This is a straw man. Nobody is saying everyone should be genius Olympian. The argument is that the janitor, the fast food worker, the cashier deserve a livable
by amrocha 5y ago
This is a straw man. Nobody is saying everyone should be genius Olympian.
The argument is that the janitor, the fast food worker, the cashier deserve a livable wage. They don't deserve to have decades slashed off their life expectancy because they're poor. They shouldn't have to ration insulin because they're poor. They shouldn't have to commute for 2 hours because they're poor.
- tomjakubowski 5y ago> deserve a livable wage Is a "market wage", supplemented by payments from public money to reach decent living standards, acceptable? That's what UBI would be, in theory at least.
- amrocha 5y agoA better solution imo would be a society where necessities are free, and people can work for anything above that. But really, anything other than what we have right now would be an improvement.
- sfblah 5y agoIt's not at all a straw man. Large swaths of the political spectrum in the US now reject the notion that there are different levels of intellectual capability.
- amrocha 5y agoNah dude, almost nobody thinks that. You're letting your biases cloud your judgement. You see one person saying some stupid thing and you assume that's representative of a larger group. It's not.
- sfblah 5y agoOutside of pretty narrow specializations, research into IQ is extremely touchy. Am I missing something here? How is this a result of my bias?