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| Jul 17, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | agc | @Thern, Please click on that "blimey" link for an illustration. But supposing a more even distribution, relative wealth to a poor family might be fatal misery to a wealthy one. Many of the extremely wealthy are like captive, pampered, or specially trained animals not acclimated to survive a theoretic egalitarian jungle. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 12:02 | comment | added | Thern | @agc No, very extreme welfare would not allow for any discrepancies in income or wealth. So this would wind up into anybody owning the same amount. I never heard of any idea to give all the wealth to the poorest, not in communism, not in any other theory. That seems just a ridiculous idea (although the Internet is large and you may find somebody somewhere who proclaims such an idea, but then there are Flat-Earthers, so...). | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 4:51 | comment | added | agc | Ordinary disagreements like Welfare pro & con aren't relevant. It needs to be made very extreme -- very extreme welfare would give the poorest people everything, (say, as compounded interest on reparations of the harms of impoverishment), and very extreme anti-taxers would allow the richest to own everything, (they earned it and deserve it so it's their right, and selfishness is realist virtue), so either way a small group winds up owning it all. "Wait a tic... blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought." | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 12:26 | comment | added | Rekesoft | @falcon This says much more about your ill-conceived vision of what feminism (radical or not) is than about the horsehoe theory. | |
| May 8, 2015 at 4:30 | comment | added | falcon | I can imagine that a society run by radical feminists may end up becoming a gender-reversed Saudi Arabia. Racism and anti-racism would seem to be opposite extremes as well, and yet we've gone full circle. Perhaps someone decides to take welfare and progressive taxes so far that they implement short-sighted policies that end up hurting poor people even more? | |
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| May 7, 2015 at 15:24 | history | answered | enderland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |