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A comment on U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by d1zzy on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:58PM (#25932289)
That reads as an argument but my lack of English skills makes it hard to understand what exactly are you saying.

However, it does seem to me that that you still haven't addressed one of the main points you're responding to, that we can have perfect equality where everyone lives as the average person below poverty line today. Would that be a better society considering your arguments?

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:42PM (#25932916)
> we can have perfect equality where everyone lives as the average person below poverty line today

Well, no, we probably can't. Inequality can be mitigated, but it can’t be eliminated, especially durably.

> Would that be a better society considering your arguments?

That's really an objectively unanswerable question for many reasons. You can't really measure, on more than an ordinal scale, individual utility, or aggregate it, except by interposing non-objective judgements. Would it be better for lots of people currently above the poverty line? Maybe, depends how far below the poverty line the equal society was.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by vorpalhex on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:05PM (#25932376)
I'm a college educated native speaker who reads medical research in my free time and I can't understand what the parent was saying.
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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by db579 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:33PM (#25932780)
Arguably yes. I'm not saying it's necessarily the world I would want to live in but I suspect the world's aggregate perceived level of happiness may be higher.
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