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Frondo on May 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Plutocrats Cripple the IRS: You pay more becau...

Well, no. This is a problem that will never be solved, because it's not a problem with a single "correct" solution.

Each new generation has to hash it out for ourselves, the kind of society we want to build. The work is never done.

weberc2 on May 1, 2016 [–]

So the OP says what society decides isn't fair, and you say that fairness is decided by society. It seems like there should be a less paradoxical way to reason about this.

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