1/5 With social justice activism we are seeing what happens when you go first in a $10 ultimatum game and offer $3.
what is a fair system, in principle? what is a fair system, in practice? has there ever been a fair system? if not, would be willing to speculate why not? if yes, why did that system go away?
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Personally, I'd be attracted to a system that was consistent with Rawls's framework, with agents being a little more risk-tolerant than his proposed agents were. We've never had a system that fair. Why not? Because we've been backing our way toward it an inch at a time.
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And I don't think the recent flare-up of social justice activism came about because things suddenly got more unfair in the 2010s. I think it's mostly because people with grievances all along finally got voice in a big way. We're dealing with a lot of suppressed grievance now.
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I agree but also there's thishttps://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1004745925888233472 …
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Yes. The continued rise in economic inequality is not helping.
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And if you're specifically trying to explain what's driving the college and recent graduate activists, . . . this particular issue is particularly salient.
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