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Re:Utility monster by croon on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:52AM (#23192155)
We never did, no. But could you ever do that trading if one kid in class had 95% of all the candy from the off-set?

I was not advocating nor (intentionally) suggesting utilitarianism meant everything identical for everyone.

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Re:Utility monster by marcosdumay on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:08PM (#23195344)
> But could you ever do that trading if one kid in class had 95% of all the candy from the off-set?

Hum... Yes. That's still in economics 101. Everybody will still be better off after the trade. Also, it's very likely (but still dependent of the candy distribution) that everybody will prefer to trade with that one kid instead of everybody else.

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