PoliticalChic
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good exchanges....so let me ask a Q to you both-
based on a luck factor, randomness..fate, should we find or assign a quantitative mechanism to account for this(?), to those that it MAY effect or could have effected, well, how do we account for those whom due to the law of averages would never suffer this random effect negatively?
Further- randomness, luck etc. comes in to flavors...good/ad....so, imho, its a wash.
That is an interesting question, significant because it goes to the very core of liberalism.
FDR attempted to apply the concept of equality to economoics, and that is where he, and they, went astray.
The tried and true strategy for coping with the knowledge that others are a cut above, is to find a way to bring down the more fortunate. Thus, progressive taxation.
Kurt Vonnegut dealt with the premise in a satirical way:
And so the leveling process grinds insensately on. The Wall Street Journal recently reprinted a Kurt Vonnegut story, which the paper retitled "It Seemed Like Fiction" Vonnegut saw the trend and envisioned the day when Americans would achieve perfect equality: persons of superior intelligence required to wear mental handicap radios that emit a sharp noise every twenty seconds to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains, persons of superior strength or grace burdened with weights, those of uncommon beauty forced to wear masks. Hard Truths About the Culture War
Sheesh.
Quoting Vonnegut? And completely out of context too.
Vonnegut was very much against Corporatism. Trying reading some of his books every once in a while.
Read the story....it is fully in context....it's you guys in the 'equality' crowd who are out of context.