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Newsflash: Human beings are an unequal species, giving rise to unequal societies, with unequal outcomes. You can try and mitigate or ease things a little, but y
by nickdothutton 3y ago
Newsflash: Human beings are an unequal species, giving rise to unequal societies, with unequal outcomes. You can try and mitigate or ease things a little, but you wont alter that reality. Even if everyone on the planet were offered a free Harvard/Oxford/Sorbonne education (and boarding), there would be some people who couldn't get themselves out of bed each morning to attend class.
- olddustytrail 3y agoIndeed. And then they'd never be aware of the "nirvana fallacy". The only people who argue about perfect equality are those setting up straw man arguments. I have no issues with a hard working person having 10x more than a lazy person. Or even 100x. Hey, why not 1000x even! It's when it becomes 10,000,000x the amount that a hard working person could realistically make in their lifetime that I think inequality might just have gone a bit far.
- rogers12 3y agoUnreasonable people can disagree on the exact threshold. Sometimes they decide that 10,000,000xers are out of reach, but gullible upper middle class schlubs like you and I are quite ripe for the looting.
- TotalCrackpot 3y agoWe had every equal societies in the world in a lot of places, they didn't have many hierarchies like a lot of tribes in America before they got slaughtered by white invaders. Ignoring a lot of anthropology with your ignorant comment.
- nickdothutton 3y agoThere are inequalities within a tiny village, within a family, and even within a relationship. One is smarter or more healthy or stronger or more cooperative or better looking or feels the cold or has better eyesight… We are a totally unequal species.
- throwawaymanbot 3y ago[dead]