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Will Wilkinson: Opposite Day
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PGR · 3 years agoIncome inequality is bad.
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Glen Whitman · 3 years agoUtilitarianism! (You may choose between act and rule utilitarianism. Or go with some combination or third variation, if you want.)
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GilM · 3 years agoMoving towards privately owned retirement accounts is too risky.
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Jake Winship · 3 years agoNegative internalities require societal restraints on individual action
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Will Wilkinson · 3 years agoJake, You'll have to phrase that more narrowly, since I don't disagree, unless you mean "all negative externalities..."
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R.J. Lehmann · 3 years agoI think he's referring to "internalities," as in, people should be saved from themselves. But you may not disagree with that either, in certain circumstances.
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Jake Winship · 3 years agoYes, I meant the specific issue of negative results imposed on a person's "future self" by her voluntary decisions - I think this a harder sell than externalities, even post-Coase
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asg · 3 years agoProperty rights are very weak and originate from the state.
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penner · 3 years agoNegative liberty ("right to be left alone") is what's really important; its value doesn't come from its contribution to positive liberty.
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Javier · 3 years agoEquality of opportunity as the premier or central principle of distributive justice. And I mean equality of opportunity in the "fair" sense: everyone needs an equal starting chance, controlling for unequal social and natural endowments.
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Javier · 3 years agoThe "controlling for" bit should read "leveling out initially unequal social and natural endowments"
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Ben A · 3 years agoI'll second Javier. Equality of opportunity is a/the central principle of distibutive justice.
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Dallas · 3 years agoThere are no objective moral truths.
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Will Wilkinson · 3 years agoWe're getting close, folks. Do I hear a third for equality of opportunity?
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Jake Winship · 3 years agoI'll third the proposition, but I'm not sure that I entirely disagree with the premise. Execution can be a sticking point - maybe address that aspect.
