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> Everyone just wants to believe the game is rigged, on a long enough time frame genetic winners are at the top Is that a good game? Why not just appoint the

by lapcat 4y ago

> Everyone just wants to believe the game is rigged, on a long enough time frame genetic winners are at the top Is that a good game? Why not just appoint the natural-born redheads as kings? Seriously, if I'm born into a "game" where I'm predestined to lose by my birth status, then I'd rather not play that game at all, thank you very much. However, you have to wonder about the mentality of not seeking wealth as your primary goal in life. The smartest are not necessarily the wealthiest. Was Einstein the richest person in the world? No. He chose to pursue science, not business. I feel that society should actually deter people who are obsessed with wealth-seeking over all other values. That's unhealthy personally and socially. Money is not the true measure of a man.

sokoloff 4y ago
The game will always be imbalanced. People will seek to find a way to give their offspring an advantage. I argue that this is good for society overall. It’s far better for my wife and I to do our best to raise successful children (for whatever definitions of success we choose) than to leave them to fend for themselves. Inherent in parents trying to do their best with/for their kids is that some parents will do that more effectively than others. Other parents will simply be not good parents. Being born to not good parents will suck for sure.
- lapcat 4y ago
  > It’s far better for my wife and I to do our best to raise successful children (for whatever definitions of success we choose) than to leave them to fend for themselves. That's a bit questionable, because overbearing or helicopter parents can do a lot of damage to a kid. ;-) Anyway, it seems like a bit of a false dichotomy too, because Plato argued in the Republic that children should be raised communally rather than by individual parents.
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    Parents who subscribe to Plato’s view can choose that. There are many roads to Rome/Athens. I’m not here to dictate choices that are other parents’ to make.
    - lapcat 4y ago
      > Parents who subscribe to Plato’s view can choose that. Well, no, by definition you need buy-in from the whole community. In Plato's Republic, parents didn't know which children were theirs, and vice versa. This eliminated exactly the thing you were talking about: favoritism toward your own children.
      - sokoloff 4y ago
        You call it favoritism. I call it being a caring and engaged parent. Those are, I suppose in some ways, two sides of the same coin.

by lapcat 4y ago

sokoloff 4y ago

The game will always be imbalanced. People will seek to find a way to give their offspring an advantage. I argue that this is good for society overall. It’s far better for my wife and I to do our best to raise successful children (for whatever definitions of success we choose) than to leave them to fend for themselves. Inherent in parents trying to do their best with/for their kids is that some parents will do that more effectively than others. Other parents will simply be not good parents. Being born to not good parents will suck for sure.

lapcat 4y ago
> It’s far better for my wife and I to do our best to raise successful children (for whatever definitions of success we choose) than to leave them to fend for themselves. That's a bit questionable, because overbearing or helicopter parents can do a lot of damage to a kid. ;-) Anyway, it seems like a bit of a false dichotomy too, because Plato argued in the Republic that children should be raised communally rather than by individual parents.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  Parents who subscribe to Plato’s view can choose that. There are many roads to Rome/Athens. I’m not here to dictate choices that are other parents’ to make.
  - lapcat 4y ago
    > Parents who subscribe to Plato’s view can choose that. Well, no, by definition you need buy-in from the whole community. In Plato's Republic, parents didn't know which children were theirs, and vice versa. This eliminated exactly the thing you were talking about: favoritism toward your own children.
    - sokoloff 4y ago
      You call it favoritism. I call it being a caring and engaged parent. Those are, I suppose in some ways, two sides of the same coin.