34 sats \ 7 replies \ @Satosora 11 Oct \ parent \ on: The Manifestation of Economic Laws Across Societies and Epochs econ
You are right.
I just feel our values in society are making us flounder.
Partly, that's because striving for equality comes at the expense of fairness. People don't want to invest effort into an unfair system.
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Free riders don't like fairness, because they don't want to have to contribute in order to take. That's what equality is fundamentally about, not being required to contribute to the system you take from.
Fairness, on the other hand, is getting what you've earned.
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Also, fairness is getting what you earn and earning what you get and not having to surrender it under the threat of force. That is the wool being pulled over people’s eyes and the gullibility being demonstrated.
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and earning what you get
Yes, good amendment.
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Yes, both the inputs and the outputs have to be equivalent.
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