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Yep, and good looking people don't deserve all the preferential treatment they get in the world. Those genes were inherited from their parents. We should do pl
by pembrook 2y ago
Yep, and good looking people don't deserve all the preferential treatment they get in the world. Those genes were inherited from their parents.
We should do plastic surgery to the best looking children to make them average-looking...it's social justice.
We won't achieve true fairness until we forcibly take central control of all decentralized processes (markets, nature) to ensure no tall poppies.
- mckn1ght 2y agoBad analogy. Money is representative of externalities, of things exchanged by others, like the time they spent working to earn the income, or selling something, and it extends through many levels of transactions in society. That’s nothing like someone’s good looks, which, by the way, is subjective and has changed over the ages.
- pembrook 2y agoUsing this logic, having good genes represents an even greater injustice. As you have said, money is a fuzzy representation of at least some value created via societal transactions. Genetics, on the other hand, are wholly undeserved, even by the people passing them on. If we aim to champion fairness, I don't see how this cannot be part of the conversation.
- mckn1ght 2y agoThe lady doth protest too much, methinks. If that’s what you want to believe, so be it, but I disagree.