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A comment on Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality.

Re:Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality by AbrahamParangi on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:01AM (#26862263)
To summarize, inequality is reduced when labor becomes more valuable or when everyone becomes poor.

A good argument for why reducing inequality has problems as an objective.

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Re:Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality by jacquesm on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:10AM (#26862340)
That's quite a poor summary.
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Re:Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality by AbrahamParangi on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:17AM (#26862401)
What would you add?
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Re:Stanford: A grim correlation between violence and inequality by aiioquip on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:26AM (#26862490)
Personally there's nothing I could add that would fix this, it has to be scrapped. Financial equality is not about making everyone poorer (more realistically it just makes a small group poorer), and also labour becoming less valuable is a consequence that can simply be fixed by distributing wealth to those who lost their jobs, not by trying to force labour to become more valuable.
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