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Anyone interested in this area check out Ted Chiang’s short story It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids are Still Winning.
Premise: In the future, scientists conduct an experiment to genetically modify poor children to improve their intelligence, so they have a better chance to succeed in life. While the experiment proves to be successful, and the children’s IQ increases, they still fail to achieve social progress, because the entire state system favors the rich only.
Thanks. That was… interesting but depressing to read.
Anyway, here’s the link in case anyone else happens to be curious.
King
We live in a democracy.
You might, I’m stuck in the United States.
Where do we find this story.
Maybe in one of the two links that other commenters posted to it?
A professional audiobook version also exists within Chiang’s collection Exhalation for all the homies with eye problems from blindness to convergence insufficiency.
Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford because the rich pay to evade.
Where I come from, there’s a saying that goes something like this: ‘There are only two kinds of people in jail: the very stupid and the very poor.’
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Oh, this post is turning out to be a sad one.Anyway, I’ve heard that mental illnesses and other psychological issues often lead to jail and only get worse in there. Modern societies are not at all prepared to handle these kinds of problems.
Insofar as “modern societies” refer to the people who hold power in them, I’m not so sure modern societies are interested in handling these kinds of problems.
Totally agree. It’s all about not being interested in handling these problems. That’s a bit strange though, because the current style is really expensive.
Justice is a spider web.
It’s made to catch small bugs.
Bigger animals just trample the damn thing.That’s a very good way to think about it.
The cost of justice is too damn high!
That made me think of a riddle.
The poor beg for my arrival.
The rich never want to see me.
The poor can’t afford my visit.
The rich pay to block my entry.
Who am I?The sweet release of death.
Oh. Good point.
Well, that works too, I guess.I don’t know the intended answer!
Not a problem. I like your thinking outside the box solution too.
Adult Santa Claus
Justice?
That’s why you all should know that Epstein didn’t kill himself.
I wonder if he was allowed to kill himself, as an alternative to something much worse (e.g. being killed in a much more painful or gruesome way). It’s clear that the truly powerful people couldn’t let him testify against them.
That could be possible in a hollywood movie, in real life, Epstein did not kill himself
Totally.
Also, it’s kinda funny to strictly follow this logic, because it means that the rich still struggle to get justice if the criminals are the rich.
When a rich person screws over another rich person, the one with more money will be able to inflict greater injustice on the other. Either way, this equation involves no justice, and people pay to keep it that way.
I begged to know if justice
is a form far-out or in
he said son, there is no justice
there’s just what
and that just is.
So that means I can start woodchipping criminals, right?
After all, there is no justice.
What do the police do with it then ?
They have nothing to do with it.
I disagree. The rich house the police in the USA. The police in the USA don’t own homes frequently in the USA because that information is frequently publicly available. Property records would tie police officers names to an address publicly. So rich people house them for cheap rent in their extra homes to act as protection. No muss, no public records, no fuss, and rich guy has a knight errant available all the time.
Too bad the poor can’t afford to do that.
I was saying the police have nothing to do with Justice.
they use it as a cudgel and beat the poor with it until they submit.
Their job is to enforce the law. That may or may not be associated with justice. No guarantees though.
What autocracy and plutocracy are: functions of government are only the province of the privileged capable of cruel manipulation.
Yep 100%
if injustice exists for anyone, no one has justice, just temporary repreve from injustice. further, justice requires peace. “justice” without peace is how the people are subjagated. “peace” without justice is how the people who have been subjagated are exploited
This is the endgame of uncapped lawyer fees.
Any law that is solely enforced by a fine is simply a pay-to-do activity for the rich.
Some fines aren’t a fixed amount. Could also be a percentage of your annual income. There are ways around that as well, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.
Could also be a percentage of your annual income
But the truly rich have no “annual income” so wouldn’t their fine be even less than yours?
The guy who sits at the back of a Phantom has no money or income so he pays no taxes, and he would pay very little fines. The guy who drives a BMW would end up paying enormous fines.
Yes, this system has exploits.
During vacation time, you can see other differences too. Strangely though, the first travels to a private island by a private jet. The latter would fly in first class and stay at an expensive hotel.
In other news: fire is hot.
