[that everyone agrees, in some little attic room of the mind where the rationality lies forgotten]
premise: everyone will agree that, if a govt committed the enormous injustice of taking 90% of income & fortune permanently off 90% of the population & gave it to 1% [so that 90% wd now have a 10th for the same work, 9% wd have the same as before, and 1% wd have 82 times as much for the same work] that that action would cause a giant increase in violence, social unrest, anger, etc and decrease social happiness [peace, safety, etc] - by a factor of say 100
corollary: and thus everyone agrees that reversing that policy wd decrease violence disturbance poblems etc and increase happiness by the same factor
premise: we humans have such injustice - a worse level of injustice [pay/hour from 1000th to a million times average, 1% getting 90%, etc]
conclusion: everyone knows [in that tiny rational corner] that we can be, like, 100 times happier
is being happier relevant to us?
2006-11-18
14:33:30
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