User:Fasten/Fair Society

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But my actions, as an individual, are always irrelevant in that sense;

if I, and I alone, deserted, the loss would be infinitesimal. The catch

is, I could never know that I was acting alone ...

As for worrying about alter egos who desert, or fail or die, there's a

simple solution: I disown them. It's up to me to define my identity any

way I like. I may be forced to accept multiplicity, but the borders are mine

to draw. 'I' am those who survive, and succeed. The rest are someone else.

(LUM-10)

[edit] What constitutes fairness?

[edit] To what degree is the exploitation of random advantages fair?

[edit] Is a random distribution of education fair?

[edit] Is a lottery fair?

[edit] To what degree is inheriting money fair?

[edit] Where is the difference?

[edit] To what degree is separation by nationality, gender, wealth, race or rolling dice fair?

• Does it make sense to randomly disown (separate from) a peer group because a random event was to your advantage (as in the quote from Luminous)?

[edit] Why do you want to be fair? ( You first. )

see also: conservation_law

[edit] Capitalism vs. Fair Society

[edit] What's wrong with Capitalism?

[edit] Can a capitalist society approximate anything like uniform distribution? Does that make sense?

[edit] What solutions to the knapsack problem do exist?

[edit] What could substitute or alleviate the unfairness in handing down property to heirs?

[edit] Is an ethical consumer card sufficient to solve the inherent unfairness of the money system?

[edit] How can everybody get a (part-time) job that is sufficiently intellectually stimulating?

[edit] Beyond Capitalism

[edit] Can today's society function without money?

[edit] Can a future society function without money? Can it function with money?

[edit] What could be the preconditions for a society without money?

[edit] Which sensible ideas might be shadowed by Nineteen Eighty-Four and similar works?

[edit] What mechanisms for job rotation does a fair society need in order to distribute necessary work to qualified people in a fair way?

• How can you make companies embrace the inefficiency this would necessarily introduce?
• How can you make people embrace the financial inefficiency this would probably introduce?
• How could this become widely adopted?

[edit] Social Change

[edit] Can family ties be substituted or supplemented with tutorship and friendship towards much larger circles?

• Why should a genetic relationship be important?
• Can public residential schools play a role in this?

[edit] Could regular schools offer evening schools for adults and pupils, possibly with pupils as assistant teachers?

• How could you motivate adults to participate as pupils and as (supply) teachers?
• What would be desirable topics for mixed education of pupils and adults?

[edit] Can schools be intentional communities for adults and pupils?

[edit] Should schools create larger communities with twin schools and exchange teachers, supply teachers and pupils? ²

[edit] What's the meaning and value of the Fourier transform?

[edit] Is Cohousing a viable approach?

[edit] In how far are old people's homes useful prototypes for intentional communities?

[edit] See also

• tollkeeper

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¹) The question is actually a good form of representation for the YHVH language as it is hypothetical in nature.

²) see Education