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by StephenCanis 2248 days ago
The world is inherently unfair - people can’t control what family they are born into. It’s unfair that some of those families may have be subject to generations of marginalization.

So if redistribution is “unfair” it’s only to counteract the inherent unfairness of the current system.

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Increasing legacy taxes (a lot) would help to make the world fairer in the long run.
And this is why I’ve been saying for years that all children should be taken at birth and put into centrally managed government daycares where all babies can be raised in equal environments. It’s completely absurd and unfair that a rich baby gets so much more than a poor baby. Until we stop letting parents raise their own children and let society do it, there will always be inequality at birth which cannot be overcome.
It's much too difficult a problem to solve completely, so we should give up immediately. Your strawman has shown me the light.