does most of inequality comes down to the difficulty of taxing illiquid assets? once you have enough excess assets to start "crystallizing" it into something productive it bypasses taxation. then even small differences in friction lead to huge exponential differences over time
e.g. instead of complaining that cops and soldiers are assholes, maybe it's possible that they are doing their job by BEING assholes. maybe white blood cells are the bullies of the body but they're NEEDED and NECESSARY
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the reason police brutality is an issue in the U.S. is because the police for many years have not acted like police. they're more like a peacekeeping force because the body is protected from the more extreme kinds of invasion that necessitates actual force.
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in many other countries, those who wield violence for coin have a very similar disposition. you wouldn't want to be friends with them. the friendly neighborhood spider-cop not being so friendly is a uniquely first first world problem.
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really good businessmen also have a similar homogenous disposition. it's like their psyche is itself sharpened into a weapon. perhaps they serve a similar function?
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imo that should be what diversity *actually* fights for. not a homogenous bland peace that lightly veils a self-deluded hypocritical power struggle. but a recognition that the world must make room for shadow if it is to have room for light.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1356306938410123265 …
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otherwise the only choice is to set Everything ablaze in the equality of an eternal light, or to cast Everything into eternal darkness in the equality of eternal nothingness.
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i swear if someone comes up with an impossible meat vegan robot flying bird i'm going to organize a hunger strike until cat extinction and then the world will only have dogs. then the world will be dooooomed.
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