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0 pointsekianjo10y ago0 comments

> There are a multitude of things you can do to reduce inequality at birth

The most egalitarian folks actually dream of a society where it would be forbidden to have your own children (since it's actually VERY unfair to pass your genes down to the next generation... Smart people get smart kids, that's furthering the gap of inequalities) and let the sacrosanct government take care of human race reproduction and ensure it's genetically fair.

I'm not too excited by the idea.

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TeMPOraL10y ago

Well, the whole inequality issue only matters because we're all locked in a fierce, eat-or-be-eaten competition with each other, where if you fail you end up being miserable and die of hunger or bad health. Hence basic income.

ekianjoOP10y ago

Was your comment a joke based on my previous one? People dying from starvation are very much a thing of the past. and good medical care has never been as widespread as it is nowadays. 100 years ago you could die from a benign infection, nowadays, not so much.

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0 pointsekianjo10y ago0 comments

> There are a multitude of things you can do to reduce inequality at birth

I'm not too excited by the idea.

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TeMPOraL10y ago

ekianjoOP10y ago

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