<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 February 2012 13:03, Giulio Prisco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com">giulio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't really believe in "moral duties," but more equality would<br>
certainly make a nicer world. I don't want an egalitarian world, but I<br>
want a _more_ egalitarian world instead of the current insane gaps.<br></blockquote></div><br>Besides the width of such gaps, I think that speaking in terms of "equity" and "justice" one is well entitled to question whether such gaps are deserved and justified in terms of societal values that one shares.<br>
<br>The fact that, say, one today chooses to be a researcher only inasmuch as one is too stupid to be a banker suggests that something may be wrong in the contemporary social model. And that the same may well be doomed in the medium term, as recent evolution seems to suggest.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>