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by Banthum 3097 days ago
Parent is saying that it's better if everyone gets richer, even if some get more richer than others.

So you're saying that it would be better if everyone was poorer individually, as long as they were more equally poor?

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> So you're saying that it would be better if everyone was poorer individually, as long as they were more equally poor?

No, it's not at all that simple; there's both disutility associated with inequality and utility associated with absolute material position; how those net out is more complex than either “everyone getting more is better regardless of distribution” or “more equality is better regardless of how much per everyone gets”.

>So you're saying that it would be better if everyone was poorer individually, as long as they were more equally poor?

Why are you creating this either/or? Are you proposing that if we don't allow people like Gates and the Kochs to hoard billions of dollars that everyone will be poorer individually?