Yes, the top 1% DOES pay it’s fair share (and then some!)

[AceDesSpades]

How long ago was his "modern?"

 

[AceDesSpades]

You know, it's possible the word had different context, connotation, like "robber baron."

 

[UltraChad]

If intelligence plays an important role in how well we do in life, and intelligence is conferred on a person through a combination of genetic and environmental factors over which that person has no control (as we argue in the book) the most obvious political implication is that we need a Rawlsian equalitarian state, compensating the less advantaged for the unfair allocation of intellectual gifts.

- Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, from The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, page 554.

"it's obvious" is about as weak as it gets.

Why is it obvious?? What exactly makes egalitarianism even correct much less a virtue??

Why should a total piece of shit human being be treated equally to and get all the same benefits as a good person that did real things that made other peoples lives better??

 

[UltraChad]

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Selfishness doesn't need a moral justification, having ones own self interest and self preservation at heart produces objectively superior results. Nature demonstrates this 24/7 in everyone's faces and thousands of years of evolution have selected for that trait, for a reason. Might also be why every single one of mans attempt to try and remove that aspect of nature has failed, often in totally fuckin' horrifying disasters of human suffering.

 

[UltraChad]

How long ago was his "modern?"

Probably 70 fuckin' years ago.

 

[JohnEngelman]

"it's obvious" is about as weak as it gets.

Why is it obvious?? What exactly makes egalitarianism even correct much less a virtue??

Why should a total piece of shit human being be treated equally to and get all the same benefits as a good person that did real things that made other peoples lives better??

In the passage I quoted from The Bell Curve Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray are not talking about moral differences, but differences in intelligence, and other lucrative talents, over which one has no control.