[ExI] the formerly rich and their larvae...

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 07:14:42 UTC 2008


On 13/02/2008, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> Would in fact you be in favor of an "improvement" in technology
> or in society that caused each person earning D dollars to rise
> to wealth  e^D dollars?   True, everyone would be vastly richer,
> by my God, the gap between the rich and the poor would become
> truly astronomical!  Could you stand it?

Unless it could be shown that the cost of the increased inequality
would outweigh the benefit of the increased wealth, I'd be in favour
of this. But the value of equality is not negligible.



-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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