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Originally Posted by Robbie
I guess I was asking which society has that. And how do you achieve it?
People are not equal. Some people are tall and very athletic and can play pro basketball and make 100 million dollars a year doing it.
Some people are super smart and can do things that create a lot of wealth..and they are hired by big companies and make a lot of money.
Some women are beautiful and become models and make millions of dollars based on their looks.
People just are NOT equal.
So the only way to make the exactly "equal" would be a society where everyone is un-remarkable in every way.
You would have to lower the bar.
So that there wouldn't be any "upward mobility" because there would be no "upward" to reach for.
I'm extrapolating that out to it's logical conclusion.
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Equality is a concept. It is not on/off switch, it is a scale. Equality in social context doesn't include genetics. We are not the same of course. Nevermind the rest of the animals, those have societes as well by the way.
So, we are talking about a scale, that measures equality and in this case amongst humans.
If we really get into this: forcing somebody down, as you made total equality to mean, isn't equality, because then not everyone has the same opportunities, which is unequal.