Underrated effect of inequality is that large numbers of people have no skin in the humanity game beyond immediate survival.
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Isn't this also an underrated effect of equality? The skin needs to come from somewhere, so it requires some sort of inequality.
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why? Equal skin in the game seems plausible for major public works in a more equal society. Float all boats rather than edge for few
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Skin in the game is to make you work to change the outcome, and one three hundred millionth of something won't work.
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I am used to the term 'skin in the game' meaning real negative consequences for failure; had never heard it used simply as "I prefer X"
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It's the same: not getting what you prefer means having to do with what you don't prefer. A negative.
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That works of course. But if we are measuring emotional investment, then I have skin in the New York Mets, inequality notwithstanding.

