This visual really is great at illustrating the distinction between equality and equity, but every time I see it, I can’t help but wonder why we can’t just give all 3 of them tickets to the game?

Seriously?! That’s so sad.

I’m more upset with the 57% of other upper-middle class white guys who are getting exactly what they voted for. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Fair enough.

It’s not my place to call out marginalized groups for attempting to play the margins.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been switching back and forth between this platform and Twitter. No one over there seems especially
surprised. In fact, the vibe seems satisfied and delighted, despite our incredulity.

Anyone know how to do the same for Apple Maps?

The Years of Lyndon Johnson volumes 1-4 by Robert Caro. But again, I’ll refer you to:

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Here’s a great list (not mine) for Teddy Roosevelt. But my favorites were his own autobiographies.

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That’s a solid take.

Georgism goes brrrr…. 🤣

UBI makes risk taking safer, and ensures that the “losers” never fall all the way back down. Which are both good things.

But that doesn’t address the multi-generational advantage.

Especially, when we know that we aren’t starting at universal equality of opportunity to begin with.

It’s a problem that I call “the tyranny of merit”, or the “lucky inheritance problem”.

Assuming you can achieve a truly egalitarian society where everyone starts on a level playing field, there will still be winners and losers, and after a few generations, the playing field is no longer level. 2/

My worry isn’t in that first generation. I’m familiar with the pattern of UBI trials that show little to no decrease in work, except where people opt to focus on care-giving or education.

I’m thinking about something different. A seed of doubt planted in me from watching the Expanse series. 1/

There’s a libertarian streak in me that says, “who cares?!” But a conservative voice in my head that worries that we’d eventually end up with a permanent underclass. Folks living off UBI alone, versus those pursuing ambition.

How do we avoid the cynical outcome and achieve the optimistic one?

Contemporary writers, like Paine and Jefferson, made it clear that the expectation was that every generation would (and should) review and update the laws of the land as the times change.

This is, by far, one of my favorite pastimes.

Especially, on those occasions where the initial search to prove someone wrong takes me down a rabbit hole of discovery for its own sake.

And, to be clear, I’m in favor of safe and legal access to all those things, but have sympathy for the arguments of people who don’t want to pay for them with their tax dollars.