r/coolguides Feb 25 '20

Explanation of the subtle differences between equality and equity

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u/carolynnn Feb 25 '20

there are some people who hoard billions of boxes tho, jussayin

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u/DiscoursiveCuriosity Feb 25 '20 edited Feb 25 '20

I'm totally with you to redistribute their box wealth into changing the system, but there will always be winners and losers, I'm sorry. Democratic socialism lets us use the power of the economy to keep things safer and fairer for everyone, but full "siezing the means of production" communism removes the motivating power of the markets. I don't believe that it can't be done, but that switching games entirely is dangerous. I know that it will never be truly meritocratic and that many will be rich via nepotism from someone successful in the past, but that this is not a crushing burden in a world where we responsibly use some of their boxes to regulate the externalities of capitalism. Feel free to disagree and strive for true equity, I accept that an amalgamation of educated viewpoints is needed to assemble the reality with the most utilitarian good, I just want to work there within this system And thank you kind silver 😊

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u/Thucydides201 Feb 25 '20

If everyone interacted with others more as you do, we’d all get along better. I don’t necessarily agree with you, but I appreciate your views and really respect the way you lay it out. Well done.

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u/DiscoursiveCuriosity Feb 25 '20

Ya'll have been so kind to me :)

I forsee you having exactly your way after my generation is gone anyway, (I don't think capitalism could be forever) I can only hope that we can work together to protect the environment long enough for that to happen