If someone is born with longer-than-average legs, they should be cut short and the excess given to someone born with shorter-than-average legs. That way, they will both have an equally horrible likelihood of becoming basketball superstars.
It is. That is not what must be established. Why should a childs wealth (usually in the West it is an adults wealth) not be determined by the success of a past generation?
You need a pretty convincing argument here to change this particular aspect of the status quo.
Haha! Life is not fair. It never has been. It never will be. I've stopped worrying about how fair life is, and I, instead, try to make sure I'm not the one getting screwed.
I know, I was being facetious. My point is that the system is ingrained and nearly impossible to change, even if many points of it seem bad or very bad when looked at individually.
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Think about it from the children's perspective.
Why should their wealth be determined in part by something they had no control over?
You're right.
If someone is born with longer-than-average legs, they should be cut short and the excess given to someone born with shorter-than-average legs. That way, they will both have an equally horrible likelihood of becoming basketball superstars.
It is. That is not what must be established. Why should a childs wealth (usually in the West it is an adults wealth) not be determined by the success of a past generation?
You need a pretty convincing argument here to change this particular aspect of the status quo.
It is fundamentally unfair.
Granted people are not born equal to begin with, but adding more unfairness to life isn't a good idea.
Haha! Life is not fair. It never has been. It never will be. I've stopped worrying about how fair life is, and I, instead, try to make sure I'm not the one getting screwed.
And if I say (I'm just saying!) "it's not unfair". Have you a response to convince me?
Because capitalism!
What I propose is a more selfish sort of capitalism.
I know, I was being facetious. My point is that the system is ingrained and nearly impossible to change, even if many points of it seem bad or very bad when looked at individually.