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Social status is a zero-sum game, so if happiness correlates strongly with it.... Then an egalitarian policy could be the best choice even if everyone would ind
by ced 18y ago
Social status is a zero-sum game, so if happiness correlates strongly with it.... Then an egalitarian policy could be the best choice even if everyone would individually be worse off.
I think this is a crucially missing point from most analyses about the income gap.
- tl 18y agoSo, basically this is the same point that 1984 made (make everyone's quality of life suck to protect the inner party's welfare, even if they're not better off than an above average person pre-Ingsoc) applied to at an individual level?