September 18, 2015
Buy Harry Frankfurt’s On Inequality
Years ago, Harry Frankfurt (of On Bullshit* fame) wrote a series of essays arguing that equality is of no intrinsic importance. What matters is that people have enough, not that they are…
Posts filed under egalitarianism
May 04, 2015
Maybe Don’t Read to Your Kids? Leveling-Down Egalitarianism
When high human and social capital parents read to their kids at night, they’re giving their kids yet another advantage in life over low human and social capital kids whose…
February 04, 2014
On Bertram’s Bad Reasons for Leveling Down
Chris Bertram has just issued a rather worrisome post entitled, “Squeezing the Rich is Good: Even When It Raises No Money.” In other words, destroying huge amounts of wealth, intentionally,…