Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford and the rich pay to evade.

https://lemmy.zip/post/61446394

Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford and the rich pay to evade. - Lemmy.zip

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Anyone interested in this area check out Ted Chiang’s short story It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids are Still Winning.

Premise: In the future, scientists conduct an experiment to genetically modify poor children to improve their intelligence, so they have a better chance to succeed in life. While the experiment proves to be successful, and the children’s IQ increases, they still fail to achieve social progress, because the entire state system favors the rich only.

Makes sense. Not just because our system is shit, but also because money is only up to a point a motivator for ‘more intelligent’ people and overall doesn’t matter as much as intrinsic motivation.
Big thanks to 🫵. I love getting a collection of PDFs like these, feeding them into NotebookLM (made by Google unfortunately), and have it generate a 30-minute audio sumnary in podcast format. It fills an important vacuum for wannabe nerds that have problems reading visually. 🤙