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by digislave
1814 days ago
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Instead of fretting about people who became successful, we should think about how we can help more people become successful. Which incidentally seems to be a huge part of what PG does. Even poor people today live better than kings in the past. The things we can afford, microwave dinners, washing machines, were only available to kings with lots of servants in the past. When you consider medicine, it becomes even more obvious that we are better off now than rich people in the past. |
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It's like you're purposefully missing the point.
What if most of serious wealth and success is decided at birth? What are the logical consequences of that?
Let's go extreme: A rich guy wins the lottery. He then tells everyone in town how they could've won if they bought tickets. What's your reaction?
> Even poor people today live better than kings in the past.
I generally agree with this on quantitative measures of productive or technological progress. Other quantitative measures don't look so great: education, housing and healthcare costs; health (esp. mental health) issues in developed vs developing nations; prison populations in the present vs past.
Michael Foucalt has better arguments to make here than I do [1].
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU