"What’s really going on, I fear, is that “privilege” is a morally vacuous concept people deploy to demoralize and dehumanize people who disagree with them."https://www.econlib.org/reflections-on-the-balan-caplan-po …
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On a more meta note, Paul, you're turning more right wing as your self-interest increasingly seeks justifications for your position, and conceptual frameworks to assuage any guilt you might feel.
I'm guessing you're unfamiliar with these essays I wrote 15 years ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
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No, I'm familiar with them, I read them years ago. I don't buy the gap as much and I don't think it's a good justification for extreme wealth inequality even if the mechanism was fair, which it isn't. Moral fashions, I agree, and panics too; but systemic injustices also do exist.
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If I may offer my interpretation as a hopeful observer who tries to be fair and assume the best of people – I think the simplest explanation is that Paul must be getting bombarded with a high volume of uncharitable, cruel, bad-faith takeshttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1095411890593787904?s=21 …
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