[gred]

I can't make it, but I'd be interested in a summary of the event afterwards.

> How do you make long-term structural change that creates opportunity for everyone? It is an incredibly complex problem. But if we focus our efforts in a particular area, I believe we can change a lot of things in this country. Maybe not everything, but something foundational to the next part of our history as a country: how to move beyond individual generosity and toward systems that create security, dignity, and possibility for all.

In general, if you're talking equal opportunity, I won't be hard to convince. If you're moving "beyond individual generosity" to a system which forces others to be "generous" (via taxation) in order to achieve equality of outcomes, I will be very hard to convince.

[cpcurro]

Note: The event will be live-streamed and replayable on Cooper Union's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@cooperunion

[dctoedt]

The notion of "individual generosity" presupposes that each individual is morally entitled to dispose, as the individual sees fit, of the assets that the individual happens to control, whether in consequence of the individual's efforts, membership in the Lucky Sperm Club, a good divorce settlement, or whatever. As Elizabeth Warren said back in 2011, that disregards all the other factors that went into the individual's coming into control of those assets. [0]

It's reminiscent of what NY Times lead economic correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum said in The Economists' Hour about Milton Friedman, the famed free-market evangelist: Friedman celebrated drivers but took roads for granted.

[0] https://youtu.be/htX2usfqMEs?si=Sxx3ew7yhJ66ydU5&t=51

[techpineapple]

I’m curious what the is would look like to you, I mean everything in degrees, because one could argue something like billionaires can afford to fly everywhere they want, and taxation for highways is used to provide equality of <transportation> outcome.

So are you arguing taxation is theft and we should abolish the IRS and let private organizations fund through donations fund everything, or are you just on a different area of the continuum than I am.

[gred]

> So are you arguing [...]

No, I have no issue with tax-funded police, firemen and roads; nor with equal protection under the law, or equal civil rights for all citizens :-)

But if you start to talk about "moving beyond individual generosity" I start to get the sense that you want to force me to be part of a TBD "collective generosity".

[bediger4000]

If we let private organizations fund everything, who enforces the contracts that use of anything will require? Does ever organization require its own police force or militia? I'm confused.

[techpineapple]

Everyone is confused by extreme libertarians/anarchocapatilists