@robinhanson: “Why are we so un-sympathetic to this particular kind of inequality?”
@slate: “Asking why low-status people get treated uncharitably is *dangerous*”
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What if—don’t crucify me, here—murder is bad *and* societal shifts have harmed shy, socially-awkward men in a way that harms society as a whole?
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What if we live in a world where obesity is a problem and calling a fat person a fatty is also a problem?
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What if we live in a world where poor people really should get a job, and where “get a job, you lazy piece of shit” is something only assholes say?
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Perhaps a world where Hanson is America’s creepiest economist is also a world where the best questions are the ones that remain unasked because they’re creepy.
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Economics is like medicine, in that you have to have a clinical, abstract view of flesh-and-blood beings if you hope to understand them. And if you think economists dehumanize the folks they’re helping, do *not* have an honest conversation with anyone who works in an ER.
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