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Freewill vs Determinism with Aaron Rabinowitz

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The Moral Argument Against Meritocracy

There's a utility argument that we have to tain, you knowa productivity, an innovation or something. And then there's a just deserts argument. People deserve what they've worked for. These people wa very hard. They earn their money. It it's wrong to take things from people without due process or whatever. There's a moral hazard. If you do it to enough that the people who are actually productive in society will sit on their hands and say, folk this, and then all society will collapse, right? Exactly. Right? Ah. So, so thi place, there's technically like two arguments, they're right. You can't solve it by appeal to empirical

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