Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

[Chrkeller]

sc94597 said:

Chrkeller said:

Honestly I just completely disagree.  I'm paying for kids college.  I put them in private school.  I hired them tutors.  I ensured they had extra curriculum for their applications.  Etc, etc.  That all stimulates the economy.  If we level the playing field I wouldn't have done any of that.  Nor would I be working 50 hours a week and paying close to six figures in taxes.  Ensuring my family has an advantage is 99% of my motivation.  People can argue that isn't fair to other kids...  but life isn't fair.  I'm not 6 ft 8 inch at 265 lbs with a 40 inch vertical leap...  thus I don't play professional sports, such is life.  

Parents should be encouraged to give their children advantages, not be lazy and expert somebody else to fix it.

Okay but your disagreement then is with equality opportunity as well as equality of outcome. 

If different people have different resources available to them at birth, and no capacity to bridge that gap unless they make even more exceptional decisions given the constraints they inherited, then there really isn't equality of opportunity. There is just mere equality before the law. 

The compromise in modern society for enabling inheritance has been to give alternative paths for people born in situations with fewer opportunities. This is what every modern successful society has done, including the United States. 

The social darwinist approach of the late 19th century of let people use whichever lemons they were dealt hindered productivity and general wealth accumulation, rather than enabling it. 

By the way, I don't have children, won't have childen, and plan to give all of my wealth away when I die. I still (voluntarily, not because I have to to survive) work 60 hours per week. The right-libertarian conception of time-preference while broadly true as a general perspective isn't precise enough, imo.

Yes, that is what I believe.