The badness of inequality will show up in the utilities
Sure. This is probably not a majority opinion on LW, but there are a lot of people who believe that equality is good even beyond utility maximization (c.f. Rawls). That’s what I was trying to get at when I said:
In fact, it is so bad that there are circumstances where increasing equality is good even if people are, on average, worse off.
Sure. This is probably not a majority opinion on LW, but there are a lot of people who believe that equality is good even beyond utility maximization (c.f. Rawls). That’s what I was trying to get at when I said: