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> To remove inequality requires a totalitarian government. Be careful what you wish for. Are a lot of people actively and actually suggesting the full removal
by Diederich 2y ago
> To remove inequality requires a totalitarian government. Be careful what you wish for.
Are a lot of people actively and actually suggesting the full removal of inequality? Finding ways to reduce it is a very different thing.
- WalterBright 2y agoEvery step towards forcible equality is a step towards totalitarianism. Instead, examine government policies that hold people back from being free. For example, making it difficult for a business to employ people.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoThis discussion needs to distinguish equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome. People don't mind playing games, but if they perceive the games' rules to be tilted (or some players to be cheating), then they will want to flip the board.
- WalterBright 2y agoThere will always be people who want to "flip the board". The communists had equal opportunity. It didn't work out so well. The magic ingredients are: 1. equality under the law 2. freedom
- error_logic 2y agoAvoiding totalitarianism means recognizing the need for both public and private power structures counteracting each other, not going all-in on one of them alone. Also progressive taxation (a moderate position) which avoids the authoritarian measures of both left and right while counteracting the cancerous effects of exponential growth.