What this doesn't seem to address is the difference between fairness as outcomes being identical regardless of inputs and fairness as outcomes being proportional to contribution. There, very simplistically, conservatives and socialists seem to have different intuitions. I presume there was some socio-economic optimum that balanced the capable going on strike with the less capable banding up and taking from the capable and that within a group with a balance that was inter-group competitive both intuitions were evolutionarily stable in individual psychologies.
The topic is so large that I am cutting it into meaningful chunks. Here, I focused on fairness in small situations (a household). My next post will be on fairness at the level of society. Later, I will explicitly discuss specific political philosophies like socialism and libertarianism,
What your comment raises is the question of how contributions might play a role. For Binmore, it plays a role via bargaining power (which your idea of strike evokes). I will need to first discuss Binmore’s generic theory of how bargaining power influences fairness discussions. And then how different things (like work and talent) influence bargaining power.
What this doesn't seem to address is the difference between fairness as outcomes being identical regardless of inputs and fairness as outcomes being proportional to contribution. There, very simplistically, conservatives and socialists seem to have different intuitions. I presume there was some socio-economic optimum that balanced the capable going on strike with the less capable banding up and taking from the capable and that within a group with a balance that was inter-group competitive both intuitions were evolutionarily stable in individual psychologies.
The topic is so large that I am cutting it into meaningful chunks. Here, I focused on fairness in small situations (a household). My next post will be on fairness at the level of society. Later, I will explicitly discuss specific political philosophies like socialism and libertarianism,
What your comment raises is the question of how contributions might play a role. For Binmore, it plays a role via bargaining power (which your idea of strike evokes). I will need to first discuss Binmore’s generic theory of how bargaining power influences fairness discussions. And then how different things (like work and talent) influence bargaining power.