I often hear people talking about inequality without acknowledging that the bottom poorest percentages have been doing the best by several metrics then they have throughout the rest of human history. But no, not good enough - other people are doing even better and that's not ok.
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Again to clarify - in the cases where force is used (and there are a LOT of these, mostly by the government) this can significantly increase inequality, and thus inequality is a sign of oppression of the lower class. This "inequality-by-force" is definitely bad.
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What do you think is healthier for society; bringing other people up to your level of happiness/wealth/etc, or wanting to live superior to others as an individual? Raising people who are lower on the bar of equality seems morally right to me
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Been reading Nietzsche? (I recommend it.)
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i've never read Nietzsche but I've had people recommend him
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The reason you can't tell what is bad with it is that it is a nonsense idea derived from Marx and popularised by Rawls. It's not based on either sound economics or scientific ethics. It's basically pure invention.
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I'd like to here your take on scientific ethics. Are you refering to that of Rothbard-Hoppe-Mises, et. al.?
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Here's my attempt to make the minimal possible version of the counter-point. All else being held equal, ignoring second-order effects, a society with x wealth will be, on average, happier if the wealth is more evenly distributed (because of diminishing returns).
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the feeling of inequality being bad is a moral intuition about egalitarianism. humans are a tribal species and we (generally) consider extreme inequality to be gauche. a "rationalist" argument for equality might be that more equal societies are more stable, healthier, etc
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The thing is that the current distribution of capital results from, in large part, racist, sexist force. Redlining helps explain America’s black/white family wealth inequality. Overpolicing of black communities exacerbates racial income inequality.
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Inequality through purely voluntary behavior might or might not be “bad” but it’s a fantasy. Right now the state uses violence to ensure the people who have traditionally had more continue to have more than others. That’s wrong.
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