Is a farmer contributing to society the same way a doctor is?
In societies with full employment, trash collectors are paid quite well, and as a result, the job is rising in status. Of course, the value of a human being is not the status of the job they occupy.
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It is not, I agree. But their job is one way they contribute to society and hence make themselves (more) valuable. I’m struggling to rationalize “all people are of equal value.”
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That is a matter of political philosophy and cannot be inferred from first principles. Fascism assigns everybody value according to their contribution to society, humanism assigns everybody intrinsic value. Fascist societies end up running death camps, humanist ones shelters.
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