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View submission: /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 24, 2025
What people don't fundamentally understand about inequality is that competition is the source of it, there's always going to be people who are or know how to hack the game better than others and this can be in many domains not just production of wealth
So when people talk ideal politics of reducing inequality when sametime forgetting inequality is the natural outcome of any enterprise you implement
Comment by Choice-Box1279 at 25/02/2025 at 05:31 UTC
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just using "inequality" is so vague it cannot be used to identify any sort of precursor.
By the rest of your comment you seem to target a more precise version of inequality.
Comment by Shield_Lyger at 24/02/2025 at 20:52 UTC*
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This presumes that "inequality" is one thing with one source. I don't believe that a fundamental understanding of the phenomenon requires the specific viewpoint laid out. If one sees inequality as resulting from scarcity, for instance, different conclusions are rational.
Comment by Art-X- at 24/02/2025 at 20:27 UTC
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What many people don't understand is that characteristics like "competitiveness" (and cooperation, greed, altruism, aggression, empathy, etc.) are human CAPACITIES, not "human nature." (If there is one person who is not "competitive," it is not "human nature," which by definition must apply to humans universally.) Throughout the known history of humans, many societies have been organized to actively resist the transformation of different individual "talents" into different "unequal" social statuses.