People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness

Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by pimmen on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:01AM (#15211844)

Because the market value of just being average in what you can do could be below what we deem tolerable.

It does depend a lot on what's tolerable, admittedly. As long as we reason about it knowing that wether we like it or not, many of these people living in less than desirable circumstances will have kids and those kids have never done anything to effect wether or not their situation is tolerable.

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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by humanrebar on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:33AM (#15211950)

I'm not sure macroeconomic systems affect the kids as much as socioeconomic ones like household mobility, addiction rates, mental health care, and family structure.

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Re:People Don’t Actually Want Equality, They Want Fairness by zo1 on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:37AM (#15211964)

Yes, but then we're incentivizing the future supply of such "below average" individuals that you speak of. That in turn reduces their value by making it a race to the bottom. Which of course, causes our caring society to kick into even higher gear in terms of "caring" for them. And so the cycle continues, with the bottom half eventually tipping the scale immensely. That is why you're getting "inequality", because you're subsidizing its increase without fixing any of the underlying problems.

Edit. Grammar.

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