The probal is actually that neither really works. Equal opportunity results in either ruthless #meritocracy, or the cumulative advanage of having better #food and #health over generations.

#Equality of outcomes results in cheating because some people want to have the advantage they earned through hard work and risk taking.

An interesting experiment would be to trap that cumulative advantage by banning #inheritence altogether. I know it's an outrageous idea, but most of the best ones are to start with :)

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Life is not “fair”. Never has been and never will be. Any social engineering that’s not in sync with the laws of nature will eventually fail.

That's probably not true. You know what Stephen Hawking said?

The nutshell version is we'll have to genetically engineer ourselves to avoid the #Singularity.

It's almost inevitable it will happen.

We talk up a lot of vapour but in the end we always do anything we can. We can genetically engineer ourselves so we will. In fact we'll have to.

Once China perfects gene editing to increase #intelligence are you seriously telling me we should just let them get on with it? :)