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Re:Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing by yorwba on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:52AM (#15842003)
How do you propose to measure whether two outcomes are equal? Not everyone wants the same things. How many soccer games are equivalent to a guitar?
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Re:Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing by Radim on Monday December 04, 2017 @02:49AM (#15842270)
When people talk about the equality of outcomes, I am always reminded of Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [0]:

"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal..."

[0] https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...

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