As a wee lad, I was compelled more by relative status/wealth than by absolute status/wealth. It simply was not salient to me that a bad gini score could in principle be paired with negligible rates of suffering! A healthy diet of ourworldindata, lesswrong, and EA forum set me straight, eventually; but we have to work with the actually existing distribution of ideologies and information diets.
I think people who reject moral circle expansion to the future (in the righteous sense: the idea that only oppressors would undervalue more obvious problems) are actually way more focused on this crux (relative vs absolute) than on the content of their population ethics opinions.
As a wee lad, I was compelled more by relative status/wealth than by absolute status/wealth. It simply was not salient to me that a bad gini score could in principle be paired with negligible rates of suffering! A healthy diet of ourworldindata, lesswrong, and EA forum set me straight, eventually; but we have to work with the actually existing distribution of ideologies and information diets.
I think people who reject moral circle expansion to the future (in the righteous sense: the idea that only oppressors would undervalue more obvious problems) are actually way more focused on this crux (relative vs absolute) than on the content of their population ethics opinions.