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The emphasis on expectations being the problem bothers me. I've heard this argument many times before and the claims that average people feel entitled to the sa
by davesque 3y ago
The emphasis on expectations being the problem bothers me. I've heard this argument many times before and the claims that average people feel entitled to the same mega wealth as someone who owns a 4000 square foot home. Actually, I think it's more correct to say that average people believe that the 4000 square foot home owner is not entitled to such an obscene waste of resources.
The value of fairness is not arbitrary, as the author seems to imply (intentionally or not). He keeps saying things like, "you don't have to believe that this was right or wrong, but just that it happened that way." I don't think we're ever going to get out of this mess by ignoring the question of what's right and wrong.
- dventimi 3y agoI must've missed the part where the author emphasizes expectations as being the problem. What I thought was being described was a divergence of expectations from outcomes, as a matter of fact rather than as a matter of moral judgment. The author takes pains to state that these things occured, independent of what we think about "why" or what we think about "should."