Re:Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
by nullsense on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:51PM
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>That doesn't sound healthy at all because it represents an unneccessarily huge disruption
It's no different than you or I dying, just on a much bigger scale. It's a huge disruption, sure, but that's sort of the point. Civilizations come and go, as do the people in them. There are just too many variables for things to be able to persist in a stable state in perpetuity.
It's bad longe before it gets to that point, just less obvious.
> But at the same time it seems the pursuit of wealth engenders risk taking that brings about benefits for large swathes of society and turns society into a machine that constantly improves itself.
Putting a cap on inheritance would not impede that in the least. Quite the opposite: inequality prevents a lot of risk taking and improvement from happening.
> I like the game as it is, but perhaps a healthy modification would be to add a reset button where every couple of hundred years the slate is wiped clean and it all just starts again.
That doesn't sound healthy at all because it represents an unneccessarily huge disruption.