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Does the problem really lie in those people, themselves, or in the circumstances that led to their labor being worth so little?
by clawedjird 6y ago
Does the problem really lie in those people, themselves, or in the circumstances that led to their labor being worth so little?
- centimeter 6y agoThis is a purely moral judgement - you can argue, in the most extremal case, that every aspect of a person's behavior is purely "circumstantial". After all, your personality and capabilities are entirely shaped by circumstances like genetics and life experience. Of course, we understand this is a pretty useless way of looking at things. From a consequentialist standpoint, the incentives work out the best when we use the heuristic of assigning responsibility for low labor value to the person performing the labor, so that's the approximation I choose to use. You could choose to think that e.g. being very stupid is no one's fault, so a very stupid person should get paid as much as a brilliant doctor, but the net social consequences of this are pretty well explored and pretty bad.