Posted on 01/27/2014 2:03:46 PM PST by jazusamo
During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume, even though we had been in a car together for about half an hour, driving to the restaurant.
My sense of smell is very poor. But there is one thing I can smell far better than most people — gas escaping. During my years of living on the Stanford University campus, and walking back and forth to work at my office, I more than once passed a faculty house and smelled gas escaping. When there was nobody home, I would leave a note, warning them.
When walking past the same house again a few days later, I could see where the utility company had been digging in the yard — and, after that, there was no more smell of gas escaping. But apparently the people who lived in these homes had not smelled anything.
These little episodes have much wider implications. Most of us are much better at some things than at others, and what we are good at can vary enormously from one person to another. Despite the preoccupation — if not obsession — of intellectuals with equality, we are all very unequal in what we do well and what we do badly.
It may not be innate, like a sense of smell, but differences in capabilities are inescapable, and they make a big difference in what and how much we can contribute to each other's economic and other well-being. If we all had the same capabilities and the same limitations, one individual's limitations would be the same as the limitations of the entire human species.
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It's a clear issue of Social Injustice.
It's a clear issue of Social Injustice.
Well said. And the current government works overtime to increase the numbers of the takers.
God bless and keep him.
Just as important in this argument of inequality of income is the people who treat the low-income sector as if it is a static receptacle that always holds the same population.
As Thomas Sowell has pointed out repeatedly, people in those low-income entry level jobs don’t usually stay there. Once they get on that escalator, spend time in the job, and learn new skills as they do it, they move out of that population and up the escalator. How far is up to them.
But liberals constantly take that bucket of entry level jobs and treat them as if they should be eligible for people to earn a “living wage” (a term I despise)
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Bump...I feel the same about the term “living wage.”
I love that Sowell point - I like to express it as,“The bottom quintile of the income distribution is loaded with young people just starting out."
He is being unfairly harassed by the fascist administration.
What do we want?
Tax equality!
When do we want it?
We want it now!
bkmk
Sowell nails it again.
“He is being unfairly harassed by the fascist administration.”
He is? What are they doing to him?
Media: Evil scumbags.
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