Ineqeuality news
Imagine a nanotech society where everyone has every single material possession they can imagine only for the period of time in which they want it (no need for storage). Also imagine that goods in scarse supply (Picassos, seaside villas in Antibes), are banned or somehow shared outright. A situation as close as conceptually possible to material equality.
Would the average citizen of a western society feel better off? Only if they did not take their sense of 'betteroffness' from their relative material wealth. If one removes material wealth as a means of measuring worth (happiness???) then non material things (looks, fashion sense, wits, achievements) will increase in demarkation value.
To live genuine equality we need to value each individual as a unique and intrinsically valuable amazing thing.
Would the average citizen of a western society feel better off? Only if they did not take their sense of 'betteroffness' from their relative material wealth. If one removes material wealth as a means of measuring worth (happiness???) then non material things (looks, fashion sense, wits, achievements) will increase in demarkation value.
To live genuine equality we need to value each individual as a unique and intrinsically valuable amazing thing.
posted by Edward Barker at 12:54 AM
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