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Xodarap comments on A Pure Math Argument for Total Utilitarianism - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Xodarap 27 October 2013 07:30:31PM 1 point [-]

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.