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Another way to say this is that if you you're at the 25th percentile in California, you're making more than your counterpart in 43 other states. If we randomize
by bitshiftfaced 2y ago
Another way to say this is that if you you're at the 25th percentile in California, you're making more than your counterpart in 43 other states. If we randomized and reassigned everyone's salaries, would you prefer a higher chance of having a higher salary or would you rather a lower salary but have less of a gap between you and someone who earns more?
Of course, what the article fails to do is look at living costs, which I expect would change things a great deal.
- abeppu 2y ago> If we randomized and reassigned everyone's salaries, would you prefer a higher chance of having a higher salary or would you rather a lower salary but have less of a gap between you and someone who earns more? This is a classic false dichotomy. https://speakola.com/political/margaret-thatcher-on-socialism-last-speech-1990 https://speakola.com/political/margaret-thatcher-on-socialis... The interesting thing is your phrasing here about randomizing and reassigning is very similar to a Rawlsian framing -- if you don't know anything about what your specific outcome will be, but you can have an opinion on the distribution over outcomes, what should you want that distribution to look like?
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- bitshiftfaced 2y agoOk, what other options should I include? For example, "less gap + higher wage"? That's fine, but I believe the ordering of (now 3) preferences will still make my point.