John Hoang pfp
John Hoang
@jhoang
From the Story of Philosophy's chapter on Voltaire, "equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world : natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers." It's interesting to see the same argument rehashed for centuries.
2 replies
1 recast
3 reactions

John Hoang pfp
John Hoang
@jhoang
It's also interesting to see the clash of practice versus theory as Plato had Aristotle, Voltaire had Rousseau, and today Ethereum has Solana.
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction

Connor McCormick ~ jtrending pfp
Connor McCormick ~ jtrending
@nor
While I get the point about equality of outcomes v opportunities, the pragmatics of outcome being an input into opportunity makes this complicated even for Voltaire
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction