RE: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society
March 20, 2017 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2017 at 1:41 pm by Regina.)
The distinction is that equality of opportunity is different from equality of outcome
I absolutely support equality of opportunity. I think there needs to be more emphasis on improving education for people, teaching younger people to develop their employability skills, to find work and to become more rounded independent individuals. I think that's been lacking in education in recent decades, which is why you now have a generation of lost young individuals, who want the thrill of independence but haven't been taught how to actually be self-sufficient and employable. There needs to be an increase in social mobility, basically. I also (naturally) support higher taxation for wealthier people to alleviate taxation from poorer people, as well as a decent livable minimum wage.
Equality of outcome is not realistic though in any society. You can't expect everyone to just be paid the same for whatever work they do. If that was the case, nobody would ever work hard for anything and you'd completely lose all sense of competition. It's competitiveness and work ethic that drives economic growth.
I absolutely support equality of opportunity. I think there needs to be more emphasis on improving education for people, teaching younger people to develop their employability skills, to find work and to become more rounded independent individuals. I think that's been lacking in education in recent decades, which is why you now have a generation of lost young individuals, who want the thrill of independence but haven't been taught how to actually be self-sufficient and employable. There needs to be an increase in social mobility, basically. I also (naturally) support higher taxation for wealthier people to alleviate taxation from poorer people, as well as a decent livable minimum wage.
Equality of outcome is not realistic though in any society. You can't expect everyone to just be paid the same for whatever work they do. If that was the case, nobody would ever work hard for anything and you'd completely lose all sense of competition. It's competitiveness and work ethic that drives economic growth.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
