This is my basic problem with libertarian virtue ethics focused on 'sovereign individual' type thinking. It often conflates power and virtue, and using power to force harder choices on others for personal responsibility. I'm fine with darwinist competition so long as you own it.
A lot of education valorized by the less principled members of the school of thought you're steel-manning is in fact exactly this kind. Teaches you how to win with "green lumber", and how to convince yourself you deserved it. Let others deal with the externalities of your hack.
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Amen. And it's a problem to solve. In a lot of ways, this is idealistic communism vs capitalism debate. Communists focus on this problem, capitalists on its inverse. To be fair, my experience with science, eng, phil, and env doesn't valorize those. Econ, biz do. Two cultures.
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