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The question I asked was, in your scenario, what creates/maintains/justifies the disparity between us.
Your answer seems to be that (genetics aside), in your scenario the root cause is innate advantages due to differences in early environment, which are themselves the result of self-reinforcing patterns in our societies, which causes me to make better decisions than you do.
Is that right? (It's hard to tell, because you don't answer my question so much as you treat it as an unarticulated assertion with which you argue.)
Yes, that's correct. I'm arguing that redistribution in any form of giving "stuff" for free makes it worse by providing strong incentives to maintain status quo.
Have you read Yvain's non-libertarian FAQ?
Thanks for being clear about that.
On your account does redistribution in the form of, for example, using my "stuff" to educate others in how to make better decisions necessarily make it worse?
Good question.