PhilGoetz comments on Average utilitarianism must be correct? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 April 2009 10:29:58PM 1 point [-]

That's a different question. That's the sort of thing that a utility function incorporates; e.g., whether the system of distribution of rewards will encourage productivity.

If you say you don't consider equitable distributions of utility better than inequitable distributions, you don't get to specify which inequitable distributions can occur. You mean all inequitable distributions, including the ones in which the productive people get nothing and the parasites get everything.