anything having to do with equality or equity always invariably ends up with bringing down everyone to the level of the lowest. Not bringing the lowest up to the level of everyone else.
Why? because it’s much easier. Humans will optimize for their goals, just like AI. When you make the goal equity instead of well-being that’s what happens.
This is why equality often ends up being a race to the bottom. If you disallow rewarding exceptional behavior and people, or only let everyone have the same thing, then there's just no way around the reality of limited resources and the inherent inequality of genetics and interest/effort.
It's the way life works. If we reigned in the best achievers to the same level of achievement as the worst level of achievers to make everyone 'equal' then we might as well just fire off all the nukes cause humans would be doomed.
Read some Atlas Shrugged, the bottom of the pyramid is necessary. Without it we'd have a flat line, and you know what else is a flat line? The way a no longer beating heart reads on an EKG in a hospital.
This is what happens when you take "everyone is equal" to a delusional extent. Everyone should have the same rights, but not everyone is born the same. It is sad, but true.
I think the only reason one could come to your conclusion is that one does not understand the difference between being a lesser human being and simply being very misfortunate. Many are misfortunate; no one is lesser. I had cancer when I was little. Should everything in the world be modified to accommodate my specific needs? Should everything in the world be modified to accommodate the "average" person's needs? Perhaps that is how things should be in government, where the sole purpose of the entity is to serve its people. But it should not be the duty of any private entity to do such a thing.
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