Thanks for the feedback and praise for the initial thoughts! I'm not sure how quite to express the last idea yet, but basically I'm trying to say that people in countries like China/India are worth just as much as people in the U.S. from a specific perspective (potential?) In reality, the rich kid who grew up with connection, the best education, and capital is "worth" much more and janitors should not be CEOs or Nuclear plant managers. The "outward-now" value and the "innate-past-future" value has a huge disparity because of leveraged unfairness due to lucky environments and unlucky environments.
People in poorer countries often work harder for much less as if they were less intelligent, less creative, less deserving etc.. In the U.S., lines were drawn on the basis of innate intelligence to deny slaves rights and wealth, and even internally to their own people, lines are drawn based on "deserving-ness", like hard-work, despite, as previously mentioned, you can be working harder but making less.
To use an analogy, a point may move in many directions on a piece of paper. The distance from the origin would be knowledge and ability in that direction. Some points may spiral around only increase this distance very slowly, some may go in a straight line, increasing ability at the most rapid pace possible.
I don't mean that each point is equidistant from the origin, but that certain "ink colors" have advantages and disadvantages in certain directions and that these advantages and disadvantages are actually man-made. That is, it's not the innate troughs and valleys of the paper, but the other ink paths that impede/boost other ink paths. To use slavery as an example, an lot of effort was spent by white ink to encircle black ink so the max potential of a black point was very low. So many years later, the descendants of the black ink are still struggling and working harder (with some become jaded at the unfairness and rebelling) while the white ink can cruise with the momentum amassed by their ancestors. The situation is unfair because both white ink and black ink have the same "value". The environment has shifted to value one ink color above another despite the equal value at the beginning.
Affirmative action says "This is unfair, we need to manually take steps to address this." While libertarianism says "It is what it is, the troughs and valleys may have been dug by man but there is not point in reverting them, just pretend they are natural."
People in poorer countries often work harder for much less as if they were less intelligent, less creative, less deserving etc.. In the U.S., lines were drawn on the basis of innate intelligence to deny slaves rights and wealth, and even internally to their own people, lines are drawn based on "deserving-ness", like hard-work, despite, as previously mentioned, you can be working harder but making less.
To use an analogy, a point may move in many directions on a piece of paper. The distance from the origin would be knowledge and ability in that direction. Some points may spiral around only increase this distance very slowly, some may go in a straight line, increasing ability at the most rapid pace possible.
I don't mean that each point is equidistant from the origin, but that certain "ink colors" have advantages and disadvantages in certain directions and that these advantages and disadvantages are actually man-made. That is, it's not the innate troughs and valleys of the paper, but the other ink paths that impede/boost other ink paths. To use slavery as an example, an lot of effort was spent by white ink to encircle black ink so the max potential of a black point was very low. So many years later, the descendants of the black ink are still struggling and working harder (with some become jaded at the unfairness and rebelling) while the white ink can cruise with the momentum amassed by their ancestors. The situation is unfair because both white ink and black ink have the same "value". The environment has shifted to value one ink color above another despite the equal value at the beginning.
Affirmative action says "This is unfair, we need to manually take steps to address this." While libertarianism says "It is what it is, the troughs and valleys may have been dug by man but there is not point in reverting them, just pretend they are natural."