[ExI] dead weight

Will Steinberg steinberg.will at gmail.com
Fri May 17 04:28:14 UTC 2019


On Thu, May 16, 2019, 22:50 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:55 AM Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 16, 2019, 00:51 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:54 PM Will Steinberg <
>>> steinberg.will at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> But it's definitely silly, too, to pretend that Bezos' riches aren't
>>>> fueled by suffering.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>> ### If Mr Bezos was eliminated, let's say by another unfortunate flying
>>> accident, what would be the resulting change in average human welfare - net
>>> negative, positive or neutral?
>>>
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>> Question with a question.
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> ### You answer first. And I want the precise answer - net negative,
> positive, neutral, or I don't know.
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> Rafal
>

I asked first though.  And what do you mean by negative, positive,
neutral?  For whom?  There is no answer.  Infinite value judgments abound.
But I am sure that Bezos dying would cause much less of an acute increase
in the entropy of the human species than the 3.8 billion dying.

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