Since beginning to consume Our World In Data, I’ve become increasingly compelled by absolute wealth as a main source of moral value, and increasingly jaded toward any moral theory that emphasizes relative wealth.
How does OWID reason about these debates? Most of the “don’t celebrate so-called wins you start believing in when you read too much OWID, these wins are shallow, because the root cause of badness is capitalism” cluster of worldviews seem to be asserting that bad gini scores are necessarily indicators of a twisted and helpless society, is there a principled way of evaluating this claim (about the moral content of gini scores)?
Since beginning to consume Our World In Data, I’ve become increasingly compelled by absolute wealth as a main source of moral value, and increasingly jaded toward any moral theory that emphasizes relative wealth.
How does OWID reason about these debates? Most of the “don’t celebrate so-called wins you start believing in when you read too much OWID, these wins are shallow, because the root cause of badness is capitalism” cluster of worldviews seem to be asserting that bad gini scores are necessarily indicators of a twisted and helpless society, is there a principled way of evaluating this claim (about the moral content of gini scores)?