Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl...
by ufseagull on Monday October 28, 2013 @05:46AM
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but it's not a quest for perfect fairness - rather an attempt to maximise benefits. $300B in a vault, whilst millions starve is pretty obviously unfair, and actually detrimental to society overall. generally, when inequality grows, so does societal instability and discord.
At some point, we as a society have to argue with the American Ideology of "free markets for ever, for everyone, for everything."
It simply does not bode well for our species in terms of morality, survival or many other metrics to have people dying of thirst while another man washes his collection of Maybachs.
Some inequality is inevitable. Too much inequality is a disaster.
The problem with this line of thought is that it's never ending if you try to "fix things" for everyone. Because there's limited resources and there are choices you have to take anyway and the solutions you will implement will never end up being fair for everyone, while it will prove to be a burden for society as a whole.