01-27-2019, 06:25 AM
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Originally posted by Open-d
NEWS FLASH. Virtually everyone CAN stand on their own 2 feet absent a convenient back of some hard-working American to get carried around on.
I tend to agree, in principle. In practice, though, the problem is that most people already have multiple someones on their backs.
Power-law distributions inevitably lead to most people getting screwed. It's simply difficult to notice, when you luck into an advantageous situation, that your exploitation of that advantage inflicts negative externalities on those who lost the coin-toss.
Life is rough, man. Pretending that it isn't is way more cruel than just letting it be rough.