Paul GrahamVerified account

Listen to the weak who say the world has treated them unfairly, but be skeptical of powerful people who say the same thing.

There are a lot of ways powerful people get treated unfairly. The unfairness may not *damage* them as much, but that's a separate question.

I think the magnitude of unfairness is proportional to the damage it does. (This, I suppose, is just semantics.)

I find that "fair" is taken to mean so many things that it isn't useful.

Don't you use it with your kids? I do all the time.

I don't think I ever have. When my 2 year old doesn't want to share, I tell her that it's nice to do so, but "fair" hasn't come up yet.