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    Technology and Unemployment

    Exactly, these are your words... not mine ... not that I don't agree The alternative being death or suffering, sickness, etc. to me that is pretty analogous to being tortured and then giving a confession to end it Yes, as a society we need to enforce the moral obligation on employers to...
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    Technology and Unemployment

    Exactly well, what are your definitions? Remember, we are taking people's lives into consideration here What was not voluntary about it? Don't we all have free will? Was the coerced prisoner not free to keep his/her mouth closed? The point I am getting at here is that we all have free...
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    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    Yes... I agree this this is a multifaceted problem and there is a huge history (an ugly one I might add) that has contributed to it. What are some of your ideas on the solution(s) to these problems? I certainly think mental health services, social work and education all do wonders, but that...
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    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    I agree, those things mentioned are highly helpful... just remember that no one is proposing that a completely equal starting point is possible... we've already discussed how all that would be made equal would be the child's monetary inheritances No there are certainly familial differentials...
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    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    I absolutely agree... good parenting has nothing to do with money, so parents who would give large inheritances wouldn't miss it if it were redistributed. In my opinion monetary inheritances are in a different category. While they aren't pure parenting, they certainly help children get their...
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    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    I think he's getting at something though. He saying it isn't good for our society to allow rich students with poor grades get to go to good schools and disallow poor students with good grades to go to good schools. If there were more equal opportunity, this wouldn't be the case.
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    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    Yes, I agree, true equality of opportunity will never be achievable. But we can get pretty darn close. By simply leveling the playing field so that each new generation starts out with the same amount of monetary inheritances (also known as artificial or unnatural inheritances), we would...
  8. M

    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    I agree, we cannot account for natural (aka, non-artificial or non-monetary) inheritances, such as intelligence, charisma, skill level and non-monetary parenting. Really? You mean people who are looking for a specific outcome and fail will blame it on a lack of equal opportunity or something...
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    Is equal opportunity (not equal outcome) best for society?

    This is a great point. I was thinking that the equity received from equal opportunity would not last that long and they would have to do something to make a living. As an example, I did the math recently and if all the income in the US in 2012 where divided between the total population, each...
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    The Future of The USA

    Who said anything about restarting a race? So says cpwill OK, I suppose I will have to spell it out for you. Do understand this, first you have to understand how money (and other non-perishable valuables such as silver and gold; for the purpose of this argument, we will just refer to them...
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    Technology and Unemployment

    The definition for the word "exploit" was not arbitrary... you saw where it was taken from Easily said when one doesn't want to consider the reality of the situation Look, I'm not going to pretend to be an economics major or even well read on the subject. However, unless you are a robot...
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    The Future of The USA

    If you read my previous posts you'd understand. I am all for winners and losers. In fact I have used the analogy of a race where all racers start from the same starting line and when the race is over, we have winners, runners up, losers etc. Competition is a great and natural phenomenon, a...
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    The Future of The USA

    So just to verify, you chose the following course for the USA? Option A: Being number one in the world economy. Increasing the current disadvantage of those born into poor families. No free access to healthcare. No free access to any level of education. No food and shelter safety nets...
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    Technology and Unemployment

    Exploit defined: Benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them...
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    Should minimum wage be abolished?

    A prisoner may admit to a crime after being tortured for hours even though he hasn't committed a crime at all. Does the fact that he agreed to admit to the crime make the situation fair and or ethical? I was referring to the fact that its theoretical that there will be plenty of easily...
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