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by bko
3266 days ago
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Suppose you're an Indian making 10k a year in India. Then you have an opportunity to make 60k in America so you go. Native born Americans get paid more than you but you understand that it's really an accident of geography and bad policy, but you don't care because the opportunity will help you break your family out of poverty and open up doors not possible in India. So you stay. Why due to the accident if geography is an American entitled to a salary that an Indian would be willing to do for less? How is that fair? |
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I am not going to argue about "Fair" because it is a value judgment which depends on your moral and political predilections. This isn't the right place for such discussions.
However there is definitely no such thing as an 'accident of geography'. I see this all the time expressed as a implicit argument, which I believe to be a form of pre-scientific thinking that has crept into our world view.
Sperm cells are not randomly selected in some kind of bingo ball system in the ether when a woman is impregnated.
It is one of the least random things possible - the entire catalogue of back choices of your ancestors is present as part of that inception. All of history, culture, geography, must have been necessary for you to be born where you are born. If you think otherwise, then you must not believe evolution theory is real or you have to be compartmentalizing it away from the present somehow, as if it were theoretical pure math instead of an always present reality.