I'm so sick of that retort. Nobody ever asks for citations for something they agree with. You don't provide any citation other than a reference to a spurious lack of correlation on a graph. Just as correlation doesn't prove causation, lack of correlation doesn't prove lack of causation.
So you agree that Zuckerberg deserves millions of times more compensation than Berners-Lee?
Yeah, I should have said 'examples please', because that's a pretty strong statement, given that history has generally been pretty shitty for humans over the last few millions of years. I am not convinced that wealth redistribution (the few times it has been tried) has been effective, and certainly less effective than things like 'abolishing slavery', 'ending wars', 'ousting dictators', 'eliminating corruptions', and the like.
as for the question of just desserts, i don't think there really is such a thing. I work towards curing cancer, plowing a lot of personal resources towards it (including money) and not expecting any profit. I also feed people with HIV/AIDS every week and volunteer at a homeless shelter, but do I expect to 'deserve' anything from that? Not really.
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I'm so sick of that retort. Nobody ever asks for citations for something they agree with. You don't provide any citation other than a reference to a spurious lack of correlation on a graph. Just as correlation doesn't prove causation, lack of correlation doesn't prove lack of causation.
So you agree that Zuckerberg deserves millions of times more compensation than Berners-Lee?
Yeah, I should have said 'examples please', because that's a pretty strong statement, given that history has generally been pretty shitty for humans over the last few millions of years. I am not convinced that wealth redistribution (the few times it has been tried) has been effective, and certainly less effective than things like 'abolishing slavery', 'ending wars', 'ousting dictators', 'eliminating corruptions', and the like.
as for the question of just desserts, i don't think there really is such a thing. I work towards curing cancer, plowing a lot of personal resources towards it (including money) and not expecting any profit. I also feed people with HIV/AIDS every week and volunteer at a homeless shelter, but do I expect to 'deserve' anything from that? Not really.