The Equality Conundrum: What kind of equality is good?

Re:The Equality Conundrum: What kind of equality is good? by js8 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:29AM (#22042633)

Capping personal wealth at zero (or less than wealth per capita for that matter) is obviously a nonsense, so you should be careful with this strawman. Reasonable amount probably starts at some multiple of that.

Of course, you need democracy too. Since the beginning, the democratic concept was about equality of access to political power among citizens.

In many ways, it's what traditional anarchist/liberal left is about - equality in power (egalitarianism?) and not necessarily in the outcome.

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Re:The Equality Conundrum: What kind of equality is good? by logicchains on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @02:41AM (#22042700)

>Capping personal wealth at zero (or less than wealth per capita for that matter) is obviously a nonsense, so you should be careful with this strawman. Reasonable amount probably starts at some multiple of that.

There's not much more power needed to cap wealth at zero than at 10 million: the enforcement infrastructure would be the same.

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