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Have you ever heard from someone saying that gender or color shouldn't matter? Sometimes they don't even just propose equality of opportunity but even equality
by buran77 4y ago
Have you ever heard from someone saying that gender or color shouldn't matter? Sometimes they don't even just propose equality of opportunity but even equality of outcome. When it comes to the poor and their fair chance you get to watch a ridiculous spectacle where all the arguments you just heard a minute ago are turned on their head. Suddenly there are reasons why those people are in that situation and it's usually their fault - didn't work enough, study enough, picked a job that has no value, picked a job anyone can do, etc.
But the reality is that it's not that the job has no value, or anyone could do it. If your trash sat in front of your house for weeks you'd pay them a yearly salary just to take it away. They get abuse because they have no choice. Somehow they ended up on that bottom rung of the ladder and society made it close to impossible to get up from there.
If you want to solve other types of discrimination you intrinsically accept that the abusers will pay for it. Your board is all white men? Some will have to pay the price for centuries of abuse and make room for other genders or people of color. If you are looking for such equality you will have solid arguments to justify getting it. Until it comes to poor people and then nothing else matters, they're poor for a reason, why should you pay for lifting them up?
So I'll say there's no brush broad enough to paint this with. It has been almost universally proven throughout recorded history, it has happened all over the world to varying degrees: the world needs a bottom rung to do what nobody else even wants to think about. It will make sure that bottom rung keeps existing in ample supply to achieve that and it will abuse those people because it can. It's the one universal discrimination where the power balance is so one sided it's absolutely ridiculous. It doesn't care about gender, race, religion, if you're poor you will pay for it in ways you never though exist, you will be forced to subsidize the well being of those better off. And those better off will find justifications to not do much, if anything, about it.
Maybe you aren't one of those people. But you did have to ask with surprise which makes me think you never even noticed or ever really wondered.
- CoastalCoder 4y ago> But you did have to ask with surprise which makes me think you never even noticed or ever really wondered. Actually, I'm trying to get better at speaking politely. That's the reason for how I phrased my earlier post.