You’ve heard that many universities have abandoned the use of standardized tests (i.e., intelligence tests) for the sake of “equity”. You’ve heard about the push for reparations for “climate change”, slavery, and various other things for which non-affluent and blameless masses would be forced to pay non-victims to assuage the consciences of affluent elites. You’ve heard about rapes committed by “girls” and “women” (i.e., boys and men who claim to be women). You’ve heard about “white privilege”, which is supposed to explain all of the woes of blacks. You’ve heard about “patriarchy”, which is supposed to explain the failure of women to dominate the world (though they seem to be making a good show of it anyway). You’ve heard about the “unfairness” of vast differences in wealth and income, though not about the actual reasons for such differences (mainly intelligence and ambition).
If, like me, you’re tired of hearing about such things, I have come up with a simple solution to all of the failings of the “system” that allows for divergent outcomes in life. Here it is:
Establish a world government with the power to make and enforce decrees about the distribution of income and wealth. (How to get Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and several other nations to go along with this is a separate issue.)
Monitor and record all transactions and accumulations of wealth.
Assign a trans-national monetary value to all transactions and accumulations of wealth.
Compute the global values of income and wealth and the per-capita average of each.
Assume that interpersonal differences are the result of the kinds of imperfections alluded to in the opening paragraph.
Through taxes and subsidies, arrange a new distribution of income and wealth that results in equal incomes and wealth.
Voila: All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
I should add, however, that such a glorious result would require the realization of some magical thinking; for example:
None of the above would adversely affect incentives to produce goods and services of value to others. (Otherwise, everyone would have equal slices of dramatically smaller income and wealth “pies”.)
None of the above would adversely affect social comity or ersatz empathy. (The effete elite would gladly share bathrooms with the homeless.)
None of the above would lead to a war that decimates the world’s populace and its productive capacity. (Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and others would go hand in hand with Western elites down the yellow-brick road.)
Oh, well, maybe it would be easier to let present trends run their course. The results will be about the same.