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Society has been getting better and better. The privations our parents and grandparents went though were insane. Conscription, poverty, illiteracy, I mean wow.

Society has been getting better and better. The privations our parents and grandparents went though were insane. Conscription, poverty, illiteracy, I mean wow. By almost every conceivable metric, the world is getting better.

kelseyfrog 1y ago
I don't disagree, but better doesn't make up for unfairness. Inequality isn't an act of nature. No volcano or hurricane is disrupting lives. The source is human, a system we built, the society we live in. If we can't change the system that binds us, then it doesn't deserve us. The core conceit is, "When I win, it's merit. When you lose, it's fair."
- cindyllm 1y ago
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- positr0n 1y ago
  I don't disagree with most of what you're saying either, but I don't see it's relevance to what GP is claiming. Was society more fair than it is now for the last few millennia of higher birth rates?