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i don't see any substantive objection to people who benefit from the functioning of the social system disproportionately pay more than others to maintain that system. it serves a greater objective of system maintenance. there is no pseudo-ethical argument against it. you might not like the idea that there is a social world, you might prefer to think that the social is just a collection of arbitrary, disconnected individuals who come full blown from the head of zeus, but that's fairy tale stuff.
the usual response involves one or another version of different fairy tales, the ones written over and over by horatio alger and other social darwinists in the middle of the 19th century.
this is probably the area where libertarians and other folk part company, over this disagreement over premises.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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