Equality of opportunity should always triumph over equality of outcome.

In a similar message:

The minute you try to please everyone, you will please no one.

Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

(12-05-2023 08:56 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

there's quite a few thingys ol' benji didn't have to deal with, Ja??? .... for shites and gigs, let's begin with a fully developed land mass coupled with a gov't armed with AI, drones, al-gore-rhythms, and of course (muh fave), the globo-homo digitized fiat economic system...

yeah, buggy ... times were a shade different back then...

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
-Milton Friedman

(12-05-2023 09:37 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
-Milton Friedman

that kinda/sorta all depends on who's holding the reigns and the power they choose to wield, Ja?!

post #5 applies to uncle Milty's as well...