<story><title>A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017)</title><url>https://www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Ok, let&amp;#x27;s permit ourselves to think the unthinkable through to the conclusion rather than immediately withdraw: Why can&amp;#x27;t there just be civil unrest?</text></item><item><author>drekipus</author><text>&amp;gt; Well let me be the devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here and ask why.&lt;p&gt;because there&amp;#x27;s civil unrest otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>&amp;gt; If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that any else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.&lt;p&gt;Well let me be the devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here and ask why.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>The only rational thing to is to work towards a post scarcity society.&lt;p&gt;There will always be inequality of talent , of effort, what have you.&lt;p&gt;If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that anyone else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleMeat</author><text>The devil has enough advocates. Is it really necessary to argue against the very idea of goodness itself?</text></comment>
<story><title>A Random Distribution of Wealth (2017)</title><url>https://www.masswerk.at/misc/wealth/2.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>Ok, let&amp;#x27;s permit ourselves to think the unthinkable through to the conclusion rather than immediately withdraw: Why can&amp;#x27;t there just be civil unrest?</text></item><item><author>drekipus</author><text>&amp;gt; Well let me be the devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here and ask why.&lt;p&gt;because there&amp;#x27;s civil unrest otherwise.</text></item><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>&amp;gt; If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that any else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.&lt;p&gt;Well let me be the devil&amp;#x27;s advocate here and ask why.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>The only rational thing to is to work towards a post scarcity society.&lt;p&gt;There will always be inequality of talent , of effort, what have you.&lt;p&gt;If you have the benefit of this inequality, you should use it to ensure the availability of life’s necessities so that anyone else with a similar inequality can provide the maximum benefit regardless of the circumstances they’re born into.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malnourish</author><text>I would personally rather live in a safe society with happy and comfortable people, to the fullest extent possible.</text></comment>