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RE: The Simple Reason Fairness Is Bullshit

in #fairness6 years ago

There is nothing fair about life, how it came to be and how it evolves.

We all die. I'd say that's pretty fair.

Fairness is simply a human narrative, a complicated lie we all agreed to believe in order to make sense of our own flawed ethics.

Wasn't there some study with monkeys where they showed they have a sense of fairness when it comes to food distribution? If so that might indicate the human sense of fairness doesn't originate from ethics.

I dare anyone to try and find an example in regards to how the world will become more fair.

Seems to me that Blockchain has already made the world more fair. Not perfectly fair, but more fair.

Also, I think I heard that sum total of energy in the universe is zero. That would make the entire universe perfectly fair, wouldn't it?

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We all die. I'd say that's pretty fair.

How, when and where you die makes a shit lot of difference.

Wasn't there some study with monkeys where they showed they have a sense of fairness when it comes to food distribution? If so that might indicate the human sense of fairness doesn't originate from ethics.

all animals have a sense of fairness. Having a sense of something and actually be something are totally two different things.

Seems to me that Blockchain has already made the world more fair. Not perfectly fair, but more fair.

Nah. It just made some new blood filthy rich because they prayed upon even lesser noobs. Old money is still richer, even with blockchain.

Also, I think I heard that sum total of energy in the universe is zero. That would make the entire universe perfectly fair, wouldn't it?

No. That's merely an abstract addition. Not a distribution.

How, when and where you die makes a shit lot of difference.

Really? Why would anything matter post-mortem?

all animals have a sense of fairness. Having a sense of something and actually be something are totally two different things.

Thank you for making my point for me. Fairness is not just a human narrative.

Old money is still richer, even with blockchain.

Fairness of outcome and fairness of opportunity are not the same thing. Fairer opportunity, not completely fair outcome.

Fun arguing with you. I actually do agree with the gist of your post. But the innate sense of fairness in humans will most likely keep driving most people to strive toward that goal, even if it is unreachable.

Seems to me that Blockchain has already made the world more fair. Not perfectly fair, but more fair.

The blockchain has created the same inequality gap by making some people filthy rich and this is done by taking from others (the ignorants and inexperienced). Maybe that would be possible if the bockchain had a mind of its own and not programmed or controlled by humans.

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