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Monkeys Expect Life to Be Fair
The human sense of fairness is not just a mental product some sort of acontian philosopher would say. It's a principle that we haved arrived at by reasoning and logic, or something like that. At some deep level, monkeys expect life to be fair, and so do we. To have any effect at all, the unfairness has to be out in the open. So it's also about the relationship between transparency and unfairness. I sometimes wonder what would happen if people ever got to see all the unfairness in life,. If, say, some magical new technology came along that generally increased the transparency in the world. Oh wait, it just did. My name is michael