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RE: Hmmm, so this is a tough one. Equality or Equity?
January 5, 2017 at 7:21 am
I'm not supportive of either. It's a baseball game, if they want to watch from a good seat, they should have to pay for it. Problem solved.
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RE: Hmmm, so this is a tough one. Equality or Equity?
January 5, 2017 at 7:28 am
Equity is, in my opinion, equality of outcome whereas equality is, in my opinion, equality of opportunities.
I guess the dilemma is, from the illustration, you want the little kid to rise up but you don't want to cut down the tall kid either.
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RE: Hmmm, so this is a tough one. Equality or Equity?
January 5, 2017 at 9:42 am
Unfortunately, if you want a comparison to how our economic system actually works, the tallest kid is sitting on a throne, made up of several boxes, the shorter kids pay him to tell them about the ball game and if anyone suggests we change anything, they're instantly labeled Stalin-esque communists.
Want to see what I would do to change things? Give everyone universal health care, just like every other industrialized country on earth. Include a guaranteed minimum pay that would give them enough money for food, shelter and clothes; not like they live the high life, but they live. If they want to get above that basic minimum, give them a few resources to do that, too (I mean, seriously, it's nearly impossible to find a job nowadays without a phone or computer). Try to create an actual meritocracy where people who work hard are able to get ahead and people who are lazy don't; right now, we don't have that. People work 20 hrs a day of hard labor and still stay poor while the idle rich are still able to twiddle their thumbs, do nothing, and still have more money than most of us will ever have.
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RE: Hmmm, so this is a tough one. Equality or Equity?
January 5, 2017 at 10:27 am
The illustration assumes that life is a zero-sum game, i.e. the only way the short kid can have two boxes is if we take a box away from someone else.
In reality, if the kids left the game and got to work, they could build more boxes.
