>>12913402The point isn’t fairness, it’s efficiency. We want a society that is able to build the best rockets and electric cars, that’s the goal.
We have a limited amount of resources, and we try our best to distribute them in such a way as to increase our collective wellbeing.
We don’t expect other limited resources like this to be equally distributed, at least not important ones. Imagine if instead of giving research professorships to the best mathematicians and physicists in the world, we just let everyone be one for a day. For the sake of fairness, we each get one day of the year where the government pays us to do math research. We wouldn’t want to be unfair and leave people out based on arbitrary metrics like how smart they are or their lack of published research in the field. Do you think math and physics research would improve? No.
Then why would our ability to make electric cars and rockets improve if instead of taking the money invested in Elon, we just distributed it equally to the population? Elon would have 1 300000000th of what he had in the current system to work with, but everyone would get a fair shot. I’m sure they wouldn’t all blow it on useless shit, or waste it trying to get their retarded ideas off the ground. I’m sure we’d have better rockets and electric cars.
I’m not even that right wing. I don’t think hospitals, schools, or churches should be businesses. I want Americans to have free health care and I’d probably vote for dems if I were American, I just recognize that this is a case where the market and government funding worked beautifully. Elon has shown he deserves that money more than you or me.
