Mastodawn

Imagine that I have $400 and you have $40.

Each of us is given $100 each month.

We each have $90 a month of bills.

We're treated equally.

But are we equal?

(This is why equal treatment doesn't yield equality.)

Okay, less-charged metaphor:

Imagine we both have bowls of candies. I have 400 candies; you have 40.

Every day we're given 4 candies from an indifferent source.

Every day 3 candies are removed from our bowls by an indifferent source.

We're treated equally.

But are we equal, /in terms of how many candies we have/?

I read "candies" as "candles" and this was only slightly weirder

@noelle should-have-thought-of-that-before-you-became-peasants.gif

@Elizafox @noelle difference between just and equal.