All progress in tools increases economic inequality. Tools multiply output, and the bottom end of the range is always zero.
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@paulg You are wrong. Inequality is a result of choices we make as a society. It is not a technological inevitability!
@timoreilly That has a nice sound to it, but I can disprove it simply by going on vacation for a year.
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@paulg@timoreilly Can't you both be right? Tools increase inequality but we can counteract it through choices we make as a society? -
@jspaulding@paulg@timoreilly Missing links, tools increase productivity only. How a society structures & runs itself determines equity etc - Show replies
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@paulg@timoreilly yes, but that's only the case because you already live in a society that's made choices to favor unequal outcomesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@timoreilly You can prove that inequality is not inevitable simply by giving all of your profits to people with less money.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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You are missing quite a few logical connectives.
@paulg " I can disprove it simply by going on vacation for a year."@timoreillyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Seriously, how did control of so much capital come under control of such a faker as
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Capitalism is full of intellectual frauds but no so many of them go so eagerly after (mostly) young (mostly) men as
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@paulg@timoreilly technological progress&economic inequality being coterminus grantd still doesn't entail a causal relatn#categorymistakeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@timoreilly I am with Tim. It's like you are saying poor of today are same 0 they were 500 years ago? No way. They are better "0". -
@alexiskold Who said anything about the poor? Someone who does nothing creates no wealth. Surely that is invariant. - Show replies
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