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View submission: On Rights of Inheritance - why high inheritance taxes are justified
What is the end that is being worked towards, and what would that be expected to look like? In this case, what does a "fair" society lacking in "undeserved benefits" to individuals look like in practice?
I'm not sure I agree. I feel that if you demand a utopian end-goal to be defined before enacting any structural change to society, then no change will ever occur because no one will agree on what the end-goal should be. Better that progress is made sequentially - there is a lot of low-hanging fruit regarding ways in which societies around the world can change in ways that almost everyone will be able to agree are "more fair than before".
Comment by Shield_Lyger at 23/01/2020 at 01:57 UTC
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there is a lot of low-hanging fruit regarding ways in which societies around the world can change in ways that almost everyone will be able to agree are "more fair than before".
How do you know that a change makes things "more fair than before" if you have no idea what "fair" looks like? If "almost everyone" agrees that high inheritance taxes are more fair than low inheritance taxes, then they must be *some* idea of what a fair society looks like. It doesn't seem unreasonable, then, to at least have some understanding in place before making structural changes.